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Images in emergency medicine
Faecal mediastinitis following decompression of suspected tension pneumothorax
  1. A Ahmed-Nusrath1,
  2. M A Nusrath2,
  3. R Annamaneni1
  1. 1
    Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Glenfield Hospital, Leicester, UK
  2. 2
    Department of Surgery, Leicester Royal Infirmary, Leicester, UK
  1. Dr A Ahmed-Nusrath, Department of Anaesthesia and Critical Care, Glenfield Hospital, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, Leicester, LE3 9QP, UK; manusrath{at}yahoo.com

https://doi.org/10.1136/emj.2006.045328

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