You are here

Article Text

Article menu
Download PDFPDF
Rare disease
CASE REPORT
Snap, crackle and pop: when sneezing leads to crackling in the neck
  1. Wanding Yang,
  2. Raguwinder S Sahota,
  3. Sudip Das
  1. ENT, Head and Neck Surgery, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, Leicester, UK
  1. Correspondence to Miss Wanding Yang, dingyang{at}doctors.org.uk

Summary

Spontaneous perforation of the pharynx is an unusual condition. Due to its non-specific presentation and general lack of awareness, diagnosis and intervention may be delayed resulting in potential complications. This case reports a rare spontaneous perforation of the pyriform sinus after a forceful sneeze, leading to cervical subcutaneous emphysema and pneumomediastinum.

  • otolaryngology / ent
  • emergency medicine
  • radiology

https://doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2016-218906

Statistics from Altmetric.com

    Request Permissions

    If you wish to reuse any or all of this article please use the link below which will take you to the Copyright Clearance Center’s RightsLink service. You will be able to get a quick price and instant permission to reuse the content in many different ways.

    View Full Text

    Footnotes

    • Contributors WY and RSS: literature research and cowriter of the manuscript. SD: identified the case and cowriter of the manuscript.

    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Patient consent Obtained.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.