Citation

Burton EM, Riggs W, Kaufman RA, Houston CS. Pediatr. Radiol. 1989; 20(1-2): 45-47.

Affiliation

Department of Radiology, LeBonheur Children's Medical Center, Memphis, Tennessee.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1989, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

2602014

Abstract

In a retrospective review of 155 children with tracheobronchial foreign body aspiration (FBA), there were ten patients who had pneumomediastinum (PM) on an initial chest radiograph. Nine of ten presented with PM and one patient had PM noted after bronchoscopy. In a child less than two years of age with no history of trauma, the radiographic finding of PM should prompt further investigation for FBA.

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