Citation

Uva JL. Pediatr. Emerg. Care 1997; 13(1): 24-26.

Affiliation

Department of Emergency Medicine, Wright State University School of Medicine, Dayton, Ohio, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1997, Lippincott Williams and Wilkins)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

9061731

Abstract

The combination of pneumothoraces, pneumomediastinum, and pneumoperitoneum is a rare consequence of smoking crack cocaine. This is a report of this trilogy of findings in a 17-year-old girl who attempted suicide by smoking crack cocaine. This case is important to the emergency physician because the increase in crack cocaine use among the adolescent population.

Language: en