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Background: Idiopathic spontaneous pneumothorax (ISP) results from rupture of blebs, bullas, or diseased alveolar walls. Initiating mechanisms may relate to increased transpulmonary pressure.

SPONTANEOUS pneumothorax may present a variable symptomatology. The clinical picture of pain in the chest associated with varying degrees of shortness of breath is well known to any practicing ...