Özet:

Pneumomediastinum is the presence of air in the mediastinum. It can be divided into two as spontaneous and skonder pneumomediastinum. Spontaneous pneumomediastinum is a self-limitting rare clinical entity with good prognosis without an apparent cause. It occurs in young male patients most frequently. It is a benign disease with symptoms such as chest pain, dyspnea, coughing, odinophagia, subcutaneous emphysema, swelling of neck. Chest pain and subcutaneous emphysema are most common symptoms. Most of the patients admit to emergency department (ED) with chest pain. Plain chest radiogram is often adequate for diagnosis but computarized tomography (CT) is golden standard. We aimed to present the patient that admitted to ED with chest pain, whose chest radiogram was clear but thorax CT was performed because of clinical suspicion and diagnosed with pneumomediastinum. 

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