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Tension pneumothorax case report is misleading
  1. Graham Simpson
  1. Correspondence to Dr Graham Simpson, Cairns Base Hospital, PO Box 166, Stratford, Queensland 4870, Australia; fgsimpson{at}iig.com.au

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The problem with the recent case report ‘Tension pneumothorax mimicking giant emphysematous bullae’1 is that the patient clearly did not have a tension pneumothorax. He was not particularly unwell and had only a minimal mediastinal shift. A much greater mediastinal shift can be seen in non-tension pneumothorax.2 The actual definition of tension pneumothorax is not generally agreed. The 2003 British Thoracic Society guidelines3 refer to tension pneumothorax …

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