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REPORT OF TWO CASES AND CONSIDERATION OF POSSIBLE MECHANISMS INVOLVED IN ITS PRODUCTION

MASON TROWBRIDGE, Jr., M.D.

Arch Intern Med. 1944;73(6):460-465.

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Spontaneous pneumothorax is a potentially fatal complication of bronchial asthma, the diagnosis of which may not be obvious. In a recent review of the world literature on this subject Maccone¹ collected 27 cases. Piaggio Blanco and Garcia Capurro² suggested that the ease with which this condition may be missed accounts for its apparent rarity. Although most authors have failed to mention bronchial asthma as a precursor of spontaneous pneumothorax, the casual manner in which others³ have mentioned it does not indicate extreme rarity. Questioning of physicians has revealed several who have observed one or more unreported cases.

Spontaneous pneumothorax occurs as a complication of bronchial asthma chiefly in young persons, of both sexes. The average age of the patients whose cases were collected by Castex and Mazzei⁴ was 32 years, and they did not include the children of 1 and 2⁵ and 4⁶ years of age whose cases were . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
ELLSWORTH, MAINE

Formerly intern, First Medical Division, Bellevue Hospital, New York, I. Ogden Woodruff, M.D., Director.

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