Autologous “blood patching” has been used successfully for the treatment of persistent air leak in patients with spontaneous secondary pneumothorax. The case history is presented of a 19 year old ...

Accident and Emergency Department, Derriford Hospital, Plymouth. OBJECTIVE--To examine the management of traumatic pneumothorax in a department where some of these injuries do not receive chest drains ...

Methods: All patients presenting to the emergency department of Chi-Mei Foundation Medical Center, Tainan, Taiwan with primary spontaneous pneumothorax between 1 January 1997 and 31 December 2002 were ...