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Spontaneous contralateral pneumothorax in a patient with low Body Mass Index

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Spontaneous 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.

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

    Kensuke Nakazawa, Gen Ohara, Katsunori Kagohashi, Koichi Kurishima, Atsushi Ishibashi & Hiroaki Satoh

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Nakazawa, K., Ohara, G., Kagohashi, K. et al. Spontaneous contralateral pneumothorax in a patient with low Body Mass Index. cent.eur.j.med 7, 733–735 (2012). https://doi.org/10.2478/s11536-012-0076-y

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