Odontogenic Infection Complicated by Acute Descending Mediastinitis and Pericardial Effusion: A Life-Threatening Migration Path

Am Surg. 2017 Feb 1;83(2):e57-59.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Acute Disease
  • Adult
  • Echocardiography
  • Follow-Up Studies
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Mediastinitis / complications*
  • Mediastinitis / diagnosis
  • Mediastinitis / surgery
  • Periapical Abscess / complications*
  • Pericardial Effusion / diagnosis
  • Pericardial Effusion / etiology*
  • Pericardial Effusion / surgery
  • Radiography, Thoracic
  • Thoracotomy / methods*
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed