Abstract
The 2009 pandemic influenza A (H1N1) virus spread throughout the world and caused different clinical situations. Here, we report a 4.5-year-old boy with spontaneous pneumomediastinum (SPM) complicating pneumonia associated with H1N1 virus. SPM could be associated with bronchial obstruction or necrotizing pneumonia, and the prognosis of patients with SPM associated with necrosis is worse than of patients with SPM associated with bronchial obstruction.
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Copyright © 2010 The Author(s). This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium or format, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Ozdemir H, Kendirli T, Dinçaslan HU, Ciftçi E, Ince E. Spontaneous pneumomediastinum in a child due to 2009 pandemic influenza A (H1N1) virus. Turk J Pediatr 2010; 52: 648-651.
