Subcutaneous emphysema is when air or gas gets under your skin tissue. Although this condition commonly occurs in the tissue of the neck or chest wall, it can develop in other body parts. A smooth ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Extensive subcutaneous emphysema may lead to a significantly prolonged hospital stay, cosmetic problems, and even death without timely treatment. However, the risk factors for it have been poorly ...

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 ...

Esophageal injuries are an uncommon, but serious consequence of thoracic trauma. Blunt trauma to the neck may result in rupture of the esophagus. Esophageal perforation most commonly occurs following ...

A 75-year-old man suffered horrific eye swelling so bad it prevented him from opening his eyes after surgery for a collapsed lung caused a pocket of air to emerge beneath his skin. The unnamed man was ...