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. 2021 Jun;13(6):3721–3730. doi: 10.21037/jtd-21-193

Table 3. Symptoms of primary spontaneous pneumomediastinum.

Study Chest pain (%) Dyspnea (%) Neck pain (%)
Abolnik et al. 1991 88 60 48
Kaneki et al. 2000 100 58 70
Gerazounis et al. 2003 89 59 NR
Jougon et al. 2003 50 NR 25
Koullias et al. 2004 66 8 33
Weissberg & Weissberg 2004 82 45 NR
Campillo-Soto et al. 2005 27 22 14
Newcomb & Clarke 2005 89 67 11
Freixinet et al. 2005 78 41 NR
Macia et al. 2007 85 49 44
Mondello et al. 2007 100 88 44
Caceres et al. 2008 54 39 44
Al-Mufarrej et al. 2008 59 41 12
Takada et al. 2008 68 44 52
Perna et al. 2010 60 26 38
Ryoo 2012 51 14 23
Okada et al. 2014 75 40 10
Bakhos et al. 2014 65 51 29
Ebina et al. 2017 61 29 29
AVE ± std dev [n] 70.9%±19% [19] 43.4%±19.6% [18] 32.9%±17% [16]