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  • COVID- 19 has become a major pandemic affecting more than 11 million people worldwide. Common radiological manifestations of COVID-19 include peripheral based ground-glass or consolidative opacities; however, pneumothorax and pneumo-mediastinum are very rare manifestations; even more so within patients not on mechanical ventilation. We present a case series of 5 patients with COVID-19 who either presented with or developed spontaneous pneumothorax or pneumo-mediastinum within the course of hospitalization. With the exception of one patient, all other patients developed pneumothorax as a late manifestation in their illness; more than 10 days after initial symptom onset in COVID-19. From within this case series, all patients who developed spontaneous pneumothorax or pneumo-mediastinum during hospitalization subsequently succumbed to the illness. Spontaneous pneumothorax or pneumo-mediastinum may be an important late manifestation in COVID-19; even in spontaneously breathing patients. This may be related to development of cystic changes within the lung parenchyma. Although the clinical relevance of this finding is unknown; in our series, it portended a worse prognosis in the majority of patients.
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  • 10.1016/j.amjms.2020.11.024
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  • Am_J_Med_Sci
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  • no-cc
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  • document_parses/pdf_json/b571fcdb7aed5ee7ada69245a672400c2dfe5123.json
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  • document_parses/pmc_json/PMC7688415.xml.json
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  • Elsevier; PMC
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  • Pneumothorax and Pneumomediastinum in COVID-19: A Case Series
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  • 2020-11-26

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