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http://dx.doi.org/10.1513/AnnalsATS.202201-006CC | DOI Listing |
J Spec Oper Med
April 2025
St. Luke's University Health Network, Bethlehem, PA.
Pneumothorax resulting from injury is a common phenomenon in both civilian and military trauma. A pneumothorax or simple pneumothorax is defined as air in the pleural space. A tension pneumothorax can evolve from a simple pneumothorax if there is a continued air leak from the lung without mechanism for egress.
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September 2022
Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Albany Medical College, Albany, New York.
Ther Adv Chronic Dis
November 2014
Department of Academic Respiratory Medicine, Hull York Medical School, University of Hull, Castle Hill Hospital, Cottingham, UK.
Pneumothoraces may be due a variety of aetiologies. Here we present two different cases: one with a unilateral pneumothorax due an iatrogenic medical procedure and another of idiopathic spontaneous bilateral nature. Although both cases were initially managed conservatively, the latter case required surgical intervention.
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