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Endoscopy 1980; 12(5): 254-255
DOI: 10.1055/s-2007-1021755
© Georg Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart · New York
DOI: 10.1055/s-2007-1021755
An Unusual Complication of Laparoscopy: Pneumopericardium
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Publication Date:
17 March 2008 (online)
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Summary
Case report of a 17-year-old man with acute bridging hepatitis in whom laparoscopy was followed by subcuteneous emphysema, pneumomediastinum and pneumopericardium. No previous report has been published on pneumopericardium as a complication of laparoscopy.
Key words:
Laparoscopy - Pneumopericardium - Pneumomediastinum - Subcutaneous emphysema