Background: Subcutaneous cervical emphysema is a clinical sign associated with many conditions, including laryngotracheal trauma, pneumothorax and necrotizing deep tissue infections.
Case Presentation: We discuss a case of a 76-year-old man presenting with extensive cervical emphysema a few hours after a minor dental filling procedure. The CT-scan revealed a significant amount of air within the cervical and mediastinal spaces, reaching lobar bronchi.
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View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe release of radioactive particles during fires is a key issue for the safety analysis of industrial nuclear facilities. Nevertheless, significant discrepancies exist between experimental measurements reported in the literature of airborne release fractions (ARF), expressed in terms of mass, and further discussions on the phenomenology of particles released from burning solid surfaces are needed. Experimental results are reported on the resuspension of metallic/metal oxide particles deposited on polycarbonate (PC) samples, representative of glove boxes used in the nuclear industry, under thermal degradation and for several particles deposit properties, i.
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