| 1. | Hemothorax can put pressure on the lung and force it to collapse.
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| 2. | Infrequently, patients with pneumothorax may develop spontaneous hemothorax.
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| 3. | A hemothorax, pneumothorax or both can occur if the chest wall is punctured.
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| 4. | A major vascular cause of hemothorax is aortic dissection or rupture of thoracic aortic aneurysms.
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| 5. | Less frequently, hemothorax occurs spontaneously.
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| 6. | This could cause blood or air to drain into the chest cavity, hemothorax or pneumothorax, respectively.
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| 7. | For example, if the hemothorax was caused by aortic rupture in high energy trauma, surgical intervention is mandatory.
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| 8. | Other complications which may occur include hemothorax, pleural effusion, pericarditis, wound infection and pneumonia and acquired scoliosis.
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| 9. | This finding indicates possibly but not with certainty, of a pleural effusion, empyema, blood in pleural space ( Hemothorax ).
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| 10. | After insertion of a chest tube to prevent hemothorax and / or pneumothorax, the fourth and fifth rib are approximated by an absorbable suture.
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