DOI: 10.36347/sjmcr.2022.v10i04.009

Pages: 303-306

Pneumopericardium is defined as air inside the pericardial space. Pediatric pneumomediastinum and subcutaneous emphysema is an uncommon condition can occur due to various reasons : infection, trauma, foreign body aspiration, coexisting structural lung pathology or iatrogenic. It rarely happens after chest trauma. We are here to report a child 8 year old involved in a tackle during a recreational football game with clinically and radiologically affirmed pneumopericardium and diffuse sub cutaneous emphysema caused by chest trauma that was spontaneously relieved.