| 41. | In medicine, talc is used as a pleurodesis agent to prevent recurrent pleural effusion or pneumothorax.
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| 42. | Thoracic endometriosis is associated with recurrent pneumothoraces at times of a menstrual period, termed catamenial pneumothorax.
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| 43. | Hyperbaric therapy; this can lead to a small pneumothorax rapidly enlarging and causing features of tension.
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| 44. | An air rim of 2 cm means that the pneumothorax occupies about 50 % of the hemithorax.
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| 45. | The various methods correlate poorly, but are the best easily available ways of estimating pneumothorax size.
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| 46. | Underwater diving is considered unsafe after an episode of pneumothorax unless a preventative procedure has been performed.
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| 47. | A study of 281 patients with LAM who had routine chest radiography identified seven with acute pneumothorax.
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| 48. | Itard described pneumothorax in 1803; Laennec would provide a fuller description of the condition in 1819.
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| 49. | Studies have shown nasal CPAP reduces ventilator time but an increased occurrence of pneumothorax was also prevalent.
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| 50. | In this period he became seriously ill, spending five months in hospital after a pneumothorax operation.
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