A Rare Case of Vanishing Lung Syndrome

We describe here a rare case of Idiopathic Bullous Emphysema/Vanishing Lung Syndrome (VLS) in a 33-year-old male patient with a history of marijuana abuse who presents to the hospital with pleuritic chest pain thought to be due to pneumothorax based on the chest radiograph. This case emphasizes the...

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Autores principales: Sood, Nidhi, Sood, Nikhil
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/PMC3420501/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22937434
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/957463
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description We describe here a rare case of Idiopathic Bullous Emphysema/Vanishing Lung Syndrome (VLS) in a 33-year-old male patient with a history of marijuana abuse who presents to the hospital with pleuritic chest pain thought to be due to pneumothorax based on the chest radiograph. This case emphasizes the need to obtain chest computed tomography in a relatively stable patient suspected of VLS to reduce the potential risk of overseeing a bronchopleural fistula.
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spelling pubmed-34205012012-08-30 A Rare Case of Vanishing Lung Syndrome Sood, Nidhi Sood, Nikhil Case Rep Pulmonol Case Report We describe here a rare case of Idiopathic Bullous Emphysema/Vanishing Lung Syndrome (VLS) in a 33-year-old male patient with a history of marijuana abuse who presents to the hospital with pleuritic chest pain thought to be due to pneumothorax based on the chest radiograph. This case emphasizes the need to obtain chest computed tomography in a relatively stable patient suspected of VLS to reduce the potential risk of overseeing a bronchopleural fistula. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2011 2011-10-09 /pmc/articles/PMC3420501/ /pubmed/22937434 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/957463 Text en Copyright © 2011 N. Sood and N. Sood. 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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