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Correspondence
Author's response: spontaneously breathing patients get tension pneumothorax
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- Pleural disease
- bronchoscopy
- empyema
- imaging/CT MRI etc
- non-invasive ventilation
- sleep apnoea
- tuberculosis
In my brief letter1 I did not mean to imply that Leigh-Smith and Harris2 found the case reports they cited as unconvincing, merely that I did not find it convincing that supra-atmospheric pleural pressure was the main explanation for the clinical condition of these patients. The ill patients in the cases cited by Leigh-Smith and Harris and reported by others …
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