[Our procedure with patients with spontaneous pneumothorax].

Experience hitherto accumulated with the treatment of spontaneous hemopneumothorax (SHPT) is shared. The successful treatment of the condition is largely dependent on the promptly made diagnosis and hemorrhage control. Four patients are subjected to emergency thoracotomy, two are operated according to routinely planned surgery, and the remainder are treated by effecting closed pleural drainage following trocar thoracentesis. There are no postoperative complications, and postoperative lethality is nil.