Pulmonary Langerhans cell histiocytosis causing spontaneous bilateral pneumothorax in a child

• Asıl Yazarlar: Anupam Patra (Yazar), Sujit K Bhattacharyay (Yazar), Arnab Maji (Yazar), Abhijit Mandal (Yazar)
• Materyal Türü: Kitap
• Baskı/Yayın Bilgisi: SpringerOpen, 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Konular: article
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Bilateral pneumothorax is very rare in childhood. Moreover, if it is due to pulmonary involvement of Langerhans cell histiocytosis, it is even rarer in childhood. In our case, a nonsmoker 12-year-old boy presented with bilateral pneumothorax, whose high-resolution computed tomography scan was highly...