Subcutaneous emphysema occurs when air gets into tissues under the skin. This most often occurs in the skin covering the chest wall or neck, but can also occur in other parts of the body. Considerations
Steve McQueen's role in Bullit cemented him as a movie superstar How did Steve McQueen die? Steve McQueen died aged 50 in 1980 after a persistent cough developed two years earlier was diagnosed as pleural mesothelioma.
After half a dozen years together they divorced after she went back to work -- for Sam Peckinpah -- co-starring with Kris Kristofferson in 'Convoy' in 1978. McQueen lived with model Barbara Minty and, before his death on November 7, 1980 , they married. MacGraw heard that he had terminal cancer from a friend. She wrote her former husband notes of comfort but got and did not expect replies. 'The news was Olympian in its devastation.I cried hysterically through the night.