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. 2024 Jan 25:14:e2023468.
doi: 10.4322/acr.2023.468. eCollection 2024.

Primary spontaneous pneumothorax

Yago Marcos Pessoa-Gonçalves  1 , Ana Clara Vaz E Silva  1 , Carlo José Freire Oliveira  1 , Sheila Jorge Adad  2 , Lucinda Calheiros Guimarães  2
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Primary spontaneous pneumothorax

Yago Marcos Pessoa-Gonçalves et al. Autops Case Rep. .
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Keywords: Pleura; Pleurodesis; Pneumothorax.

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Figure 1
Figure 1. A - video-assisted thoracoscopy reveals a bulla surrounded inferiorly by an area with increased vascularity and pleural retraction; B - surgical specimen from the lung apex with several bullae (scale bar= 2cm); C - areas exhibiting subpleural and intrapleural air accumulation (H&E; 100x); D - pleural porosity characterized by intense fibrous thickening of the visceral pleura, interspersed with air within the fibrotic regions (H&E; 100x).
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