著者

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

出版者

SP Versita

雑誌

Central European journal of medicine (ISSN:18951058)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.7, no.6, pp.733-735, 2012-12

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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.