Open AccessThe pecularities of odontogenic mediastinitis diagnostics conditioned by its development mechanism
Author(s) -
В. А. Козлов,
Козлов Владимир Александрович,
Olga A. Egorova,
Егорова Ольга Александровна
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
vestnik severo-zapadnogo gosudarstvennogo medicinskogo universiteta im. i.i. mečnikova
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2618-9704
pISSN - 2618-7116
DOI - 10.17816/mechnikov201810443-48
Subject(s) - mediastinitis , medicine , mechanism (biology) , pancreatitis , disease , neurovascular bundle , fulminant , intensive care medicine , surgery , philosophy , epistemology
In the triad of symptom complexes developing in mediastinitis and forming the mediastinal syndrome two of them, painful and toxic, determine the background of the disease being constant and pronounced.
The third symptom complex, caused by compression of the neurovascular bundle, spreading purulent exudate, determines the nature and variety of symptoms that can imitate the independence of any nosological form: acute pancreatitis, gastric ulcer, myocardial infarction, etc., which have nothing to do with mediastinitis and complicating the diagnosis, leading to erroneous tactics and tragic outcome.