Spontaneous Resolution of Massive Spontaneous Tubercular Pneumothorax

A 29-year-old female presented with complaints of fever and productive cough of three weeks duration. Pulmonary tuberculosis was diagnosed bacteriologically and she was prescribed antituberculosis drugs. During follow-up she developed massive pneumothorax, for which patient refused surgical manageme...

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Autores principales: Kant, Surya, Saheer, S., Hassan, G., Parengal, Jabeed
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2011
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3420441/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22937428
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/502639
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description A 29-year-old female presented with complaints of fever and productive cough of three weeks duration. Pulmonary tuberculosis was diagnosed bacteriologically and she was prescribed antituberculosis drugs. During follow-up she developed massive pneumothorax, for which patient refused surgical management and was managed conservatively. After six months there was complete spontaneous resolution of pneumothorax. The unusual presentation and unexpected outcome prompted us to report this case.
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spelling pubmed-34204412012-08-30 Spontaneous Resolution of Massive Spontaneous Tubercular Pneumothorax Kant, Surya Saheer, S. Hassan, G. Parengal, Jabeed Case Rep Pulmonol Case Report A 29-year-old female presented with complaints of fever and productive cough of three weeks duration. Pulmonary tuberculosis was diagnosed bacteriologically and she was prescribed antituberculosis drugs. During follow-up she developed massive pneumothorax, for which patient refused surgical management and was managed conservatively. After six months there was complete spontaneous resolution of pneumothorax. The unusual presentation and unexpected outcome prompted us to report this case. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2011 2012-01-05 /pmc/articles/PMC3420441/ /pubmed/22937428 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/502639 Text en Copyright © 2011 Surya Kant et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under 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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