Presentation
Sudden severe breathlessness and right-sided pleuritic chest pain.
Patient Data
Age: 55 years
Gender: Male
From the case:
Spontaneous pneumothorax due to ruptured apical bullae
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Loculated pneumothorax due to pleural adhesions. Apical lung bullae or blebs that predispose to spontaneous pneiumothorax. These blebs are not on the background of bullous emphysema.