Open AccessPrimary spontaneous pneumothorax: time for surgery at first episode?
Author(s) -
Giuseppe Cardillo,
Sara Ricciardi,
Najib M. Rahman,
Steven Walker,
Nick Maskell
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
journal of thoracic disease
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.682
H-Index - 60
eISSN - 2077-6624
pISSN - 2072-1439
DOI - 10.21037/jtd.2019.03.22
Subject(s) - medicine , incidence (geometry) , pneumothorax , population , surgery , demography , pediatrics , environmental health , physics , sociology , optics
Primary spontaneous pneumothorax (PSP) generally occurs in healthy young people between the ages of 10 and 30 years (1). It remains an important global health problem with an annual incidence of 7.4–18 (age-adjusted incidence) and 1.2–6 cases per 100,000 population, among men and women respectively.
Accelerating Research
Robert Robinson Avenue,
Oxford Science Park, Oxford
OX4 4GP, United Kingdom
Address
John Eccles HouseRobert Robinson Avenue,
Oxford Science Park, Oxford
OX4 4GP, United Kingdom