Treatment of spontaneous pneumothorax in a patient with right pulmonary agenesis.

Ann Thorac Surg

Department of Surgery, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA.

Published: August 2011

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Pulmonary agenesis is a rare congenital disease that is associated with many other congenital anomalies. We present the case of a patient, with right pulmonary agenesis and transmediastinal lung herniation, who presented with a spontaneous pneumothorax. This congenital anomaly and the treatment for this rare presentation is discussed in detail.

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