Spontaneous pneumothorax : a review of 29 admissions into Hospital Universiti Sains Malaysia 1984-90

• Published in: Singapore medical journal Vol. 34; no. 2; pp. 150 - 152
• Main Authors: HARUN, M. H, YAACOB, I, MOHD KASSIM, Z
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore Singapore Medical Association 01.04.1993
• Subjects: Adolescent; Adult; Aged; Biological and medical sciences; Cause of Death; Chest Pain - physiopathology; Child; Child, Preschool; Dyspnea - physiopathology; Female; Hospitals, Teaching; Humans; Incidence; Infant; Infant, Newborn; Lung Diseases - epidemiology; Malaysia - epidemiology; Male; Medical sciences; Middle Aged; Pneumology; Pneumothorax - complications; Pneumothorax - epidemiology; Pneumothorax - physiopathology; Pneumothorax - therapy; Recurrence; Respiratory system : syndromes and miscellaneous diseases; Asia; Malaysia; Human; Complication; Pneumothorax; Respiratory disease; Spontaneous; Etiopathogenesis

Twenty-nine patients (16 males, 13 females) with spontaneous pneumothorax admitted into Hospital Universiti Sains Malaysia, Kubang Kerian, from September 1984 to September 1990 were reviewed. Their ages ranged from newborn to 75 years. The commonest chief presenting symptom was dyspnoea (69%), follo...