Spontaneous massive idiopathic haemopneumothorax in a young woman
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The massive acute hemopneumothorax is a clinical entity often make grants in the context of major trauma. The spontaneous hemopneumothorax is much more uncommon and usually is the result of a pneumothorax complicated by bleeding due to rupture of blebs or adhesions. Rarer still is that this is massive. Different strategies have been recommended in the treatment of such patients among which is the thoracoscopy as a way to solve the possible bleeding. We report the case of a woman of 18 who presented a spontaneous and massive hemopneumothorax being treated in a center that did not have thoracic surgery was moved to a higher level hospital where a chest tube was placed solve the problem without sequelae. We consider it important not to attempt a chest drain in a hospital that does not have the ability to perform thoracoscopy because of an inability to stop the bleeding if necessaryDownloads
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