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Pediatr Emerg Care
April 2014
From the *Institute for Maternal and Child Health-IRCCS, Burlo Garofolo, and †University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy.
A case of a pneumomediastinum mimicking a pericarditis in a boy with an occult perforation due to ulcerative colitis is reported. Pneumomediastinum is a rare complication of severe attacks of ulcerative colitis, with or without the previous development of a toxic megacolon, that should be considered in the differential diagnosis.
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