Cervicofacial subcutaneous emphysema is an uncommon but clinically significant condition in which air is inadvertently forced into the soft tissues of the face and neck during dental procedures. This ...

On two occasions, air blown from a turbine drill became trapped in a major facial vein of a healthy woman during dental crown preparation, which could have led to life-threatening complications. The ...

A 62-year-old woman developed a life-threatening presence of air within her skull when a dental clinic used an air-polishing device to perform submucosal debridement to treat her peri-implantitis ...

THE purpose of this paper is to report a case of mediastinal, subcutaneous and probable subpericardial emphysema treated by recompression, with subsequent recovery. On February 11, 1958, a 19-year-old ...

A patient was received in the maxillofacial department with cyanosis of his lips, nails and paler cold skin and dyspnoea due to oropharyngeal emphysema. The patient's family claim that the patient was ...

A 15-year-old girl presented with a sudden onset of abdominal and chest pain, nausea and postprandial gastric fullness. She had a history of an eating disorder with low weight and amenorrhea of 6 ...

An 82-year-old woman with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease presented to the emergency department with atraumatic swelling of the chest and neck. On examination, she had soft tissue crepitus in ...