TY - JOUR AU - Barisione, Emanuela AU - Bianchi, Rita AU - Fiocca, Roberto AU - Salio, Mario PY - 2018/06/22 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Pneumomediastinum after transbronchial cryobiopsy JF - Monaldi Archives for Chest Disease JA - Monaldi Arch Chest Dis VL - 88 IS - 2 SE - Pneumology - Case Reports DO - 10.4081/monaldi.2018.909 UR - https://www.monaldi-archives.org/macd/article/view/909 SP - AB - <p>Pneumomediastinum is defined as the presence of air or gas within the mediastinum and it rarely complicates bronchoscopy. We report, to our best knowledge, the first case of pneumomediastinum following a transbronchial cryobiopsy (TBLC). TBLC is considered a safe procedure as compared with both transbronchial biopsy and surgical lung biopsy. Systematic reviews, metanalysis and a Pubmed research, revealed that in literature no pneumomediastinum has been mentioned after TBLC. We report this case for to make it known to interventional pulmonologists the possibility that a pneumomediastinum can follow a TBLC. In our case the spontaneous resolution in few days did not require any intervention.</p> ER -