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Case Reports
. 2021 Jan:57:86-88.
doi: 10.1016/j.arbres.2020.09.013. Epub 2020 Oct 9.

Spontaneous Pneumopericardium and Pneumomediastinum in Twelve COVID-19 Patients

Jorge Paul Juárez-Lloclla  1 , Franco León-Jiménez  1   2 , Juan Urquiaga-Calderón  3   4   5   6 , Héctor Temoche-Nizama  1 , Mayte Bryce-Alberti  5   6 , Arianna Portmann-Baracco  5   7 , Alfonso Bryce-Moncloa  5   8
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Spontaneous Pneumopericardium and Pneumomediastinum in Twelve COVID-19 Patients

Jorge Paul Juárez-Lloclla et al. Arch Bronconeumol. 2021 Jan.
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Fig. 1
Axial tomographic sections of three patients (A, B, and C) with different degrees of gas present at the pericardial level (blue arrows), mediastinal (orange arrows), pleural (yellow arrows) and subcutaneous emphysema (green arrows). A1–3 shows a moderate presence of gas around the cardiac silhouette, large vessels, and right pneumothorax. B1 shows presence of gas in the pericardial sac (mild or laminar). C1–3 shows the severe presence of gas in the pericardium, mediastinum and subcutaneous space.
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