Pneumomediastinum during flight secondary to facial fractures - A case report

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 67, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 1201-1203

  Kourtidou Papadeli, Chrysoula ^a   Paspatis, A ^b   Mohler, S ^a  

^a WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AHEPA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; DIATRIZOATE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EMPHYSEMA; FACE FRACTURE; FLIGHT; HUMAN; MALE; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PALPATION; PNEUMOMEDIASTINUM; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AIRCRAFT; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDIASTINAL EMPHYSEMA; NECK; ORBITAL FRACTURES; SUBCUTANEOUS EMPHYSEMA;

THESSALONIKI;

EID: 0030466801     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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