导语气胸（pneumothorax）是指气体在胸膜腔内的异常积聚。气胸的分类主要是外伤性、自发性及医源性。其中自发性气胸（spontaneous pneumothorax,SP）是指 ...

The Health Complaints Commisioner investigates after reports two women were treated for lung damage after receiving a dry ...

Pneumothorax in the newborn has a significant mortality and morbidity. Early diagnosis would be likely to improve the outlook. Forty-two consecutive cases of pneumothorax that developed after ...

Lung POCUS has become an essential tool in hospital medicine, offering rapid bedside assessment of respiratorypathologies, ...

Pneumothorax is when air enters the pleural cavity and does not leave. This air then compresses lung. So it limits the expansion of lung. That means lung doesn't get to expand fully as it would in ...

The annual rate of hospitalization for spontaneous pneumothorax among persons 15 years of age or older in England is approximately 140 per million. 1 One third of cases are primary, with no known ...

Differentiating between spontaneous pneumothorax and catamenial pneumothorax in premenopausal patients can be difficult given the overlapping presentation and symptoms of these conditions. Many ...

A 36-year-old woman with recurrent pneumothorax and no clear risk factors is found to have a rare inherited syndrome, diagnosed only through genetic testing.

The incidence of spontaneous pneumothorax for the years 1942 through 1944, based on the annual hospital admissions of military personnel, was practically constant: 0.027 to 0.03 per cent (Table 1 ...