Silicosis with bilateral spontaneous pneumothorax

Presentation with simultaneous bilateral pneumothorax is uncommon and usually in the context of secondary spontaneous pneumothorax. The association of pneumothorax and silicosis is infrequent and most cases are unilateral. Bilateral pneumothorax in silicosis is very rare with just a few reports in m...

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Autores principales: Fotedar, Sanjay, Chaudhary, Dhruva, Singhla, Vikas, Narang, Rajat
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2010
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2946724/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20931041
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-2113.68325
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author Fotedar, Sanjay
Chaudhary, Dhruva
Singhla, Vikas
Narang, Rajat
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Narang, Rajat
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description Presentation with simultaneous bilateral pneumothorax is uncommon and usually in the context of secondary spontaneous pneumothorax. The association of pneumothorax and silicosis is infrequent and most cases are unilateral. Bilateral pneumothorax in silicosis is very rare with just a few reports in medical literature.
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spelling pubmed-29467242010-10-07 Silicosis with bilateral spontaneous pneumothorax Fotedar, Sanjay Chaudhary, Dhruva Singhla, Vikas Narang, Rajat Lung India Case Report Presentation with simultaneous bilateral pneumothorax is uncommon and usually in the context of secondary spontaneous pneumothorax. The association of pneumothorax and silicosis is infrequent and most cases are unilateral. Bilateral pneumothorax in silicosis is very rare with just a few reports in medical literature. Medknow Publications 2010 /pmc/articles/PMC2946724/ /pubmed/20931041 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-2113.68325 Text en © Lung India http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Fotedar, Sanjay
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Silicosis with bilateral spontaneous pneumothorax
title Silicosis with bilateral spontaneous pneumothorax
title_full Silicosis with bilateral spontaneous pneumothorax
title_fullStr Silicosis with bilateral spontaneous pneumothorax
title_full_unstemmed Silicosis with bilateral spontaneous pneumothorax
title_short Silicosis with bilateral spontaneous pneumothorax
title_sort silicosis with bilateral spontaneous pneumothorax
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2946724/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20931041
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-2113.68325
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