SPONTANEOUS MEDIASTINAL EMPHYSEMA
Authors: Henry Miller
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1944)

Article1 December 1944SPONTANEOUS MEDIASTINAL EMPHYSEMAHENRY MILLERHENRY MILLERSearch for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-21-6-998 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptMediastinal emphysema is not a rare condition and has been recognized clinically for more than a century. McGuire and Bean,1in a comprehensive review of the literature prior to 1939, attribute to Laennec the original description of curious grating sounds and bubbling râles during respiration as diagnostic signs of subpleural and interlobar emphysema of the lungs. Hamman2points out that even before Laennec physicians had recognized the occurrence of interstitial emphysema of the lung by noticing subcutaneous emphysema about the neck following trauma to the chest and after overdistention of the lungs by violent effort. 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