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Respiratory Tract Diseases > Pleural Diseases > Pneumothorax

Preferred term

Pneumothorax  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

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Related concepts

Entry terms

  • Pneumothorax, Primary Spontaneous
  • Pneumothorax, Spontaneous
  • Pneumothorax, Tension
  • Spontaneous Pneumothorax
  • Tension Pneumothorax

Note

  • do not confuse with PNEUMOTHORAX, ARTIFICIAL, a surgical procedure

Scope note

  • An accumulation of air or gas in the PLEURAL CAVITY, which may occur spontaneously or as a result of trauma or a pathological process. The gas may also be introduced deliberately during PNEUMOTHORAX, ARTIFICIAL.

In other languages

  • ilmarinta

    Finnish

  • määrittämätön ilmarinta
  • ospecificerad pneumotorax
  • pneumothorax
  • pneumothorax non specificatus
  • pneumotorax (luft i lungsäcken)
  • Luft i lungsäcken

    Swedish

  • Pneumotorax

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D011030

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