The pecularities of odontogenic mediastinitis diagnostics conditioned by its development mechanism

Abstract

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.