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Spontaneous contralateral pneumothorax in a patient with low Body Mass Index

Published:2012-12-01 Issue:6 Volume:7 Page:733-735
ISSN:2391-5463
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Author:

Nakazawa Kensuke¹,Ohara Gen¹,Kagohashi Katsunori¹,Kurishima Koichi¹,Ishibashi Atsushi¹,Satoh Hiroaki¹

Affiliation:

1. 1Division of Respiratory Medicine, Mito Medical Center, University of Tsukuba, Miya-machi 3-2-7, Mito, Ibaraki, 310-0015, Japan

Abstract

AbstractSpontaneous pneumothorax is most common in adolescents and young adults. Some of them develop contralateral pneumothorax. In this paper, we report the case of a patient with spontaneous contralateral pneumothorax, whose body mass index (BMI) was 18.8 kg/m2. For either chest physicians or thoracic surgeons, follow up with recognition of increased risk of the contralateral pneumothorax is important especially in patients with contralateral bullous lesions and low BMI.

Publisher

Walter de Gruyter GmbH

Subject

General Medicine

Link

http://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.2478/s11536-012-0076-y.pdf

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