Open AccessAssessment of spontaneous pneumothorax in adults in a tertiary care hospital
Author(s) -
Aparup Dhua,
Arunabha Datta Chaudhuri,
Susmita Kundu,
Sumit Roy Tapadar,
Sourin Bhuniya,
B. K. Ghosh,
Subhasis Mukherjee,
Soumya Bhattacharya
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
lung india
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.457
H-Index - 25
eISSN - 0974-598X
pISSN - 0970-2113
DOI - 10.4103/0970-2113.152622
Subject(s) - medicine , pneumothorax , etiology , context (archaeology) , copd , chest pain , prospective cohort study , surgery , paleontology , biology
Pneumothorax continues to be a major cause of morbidity and mortality among respiratory patients, but there is a paucity of data regarding etiology, clinical profile, management, and outcome of spontaneous pneumothorax (SP), from this part of the world.