title: Chronic tension pneumothorax presumably due to a "ball valve" bronchopleural fistula.
abstract: We have described an unusual variant of bronchopleural fistula whose ball valve characteristics led to a chronic tension pneumothorax without fluid collection in a postpneumonectomy space.
mesh_terms: D001983:Bronchial Fistula / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D001984:Bronchial Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery; D001999:Bronchoscopy; D018288:Carcinoma, Small Cell / Q000601:surgery; D002908:Chronic Disease; D005402:Fistula / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010995:Pleural Diseases / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D011013:Pneumonectomy; D011030:Pneumothorax / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology*; D011183:Postoperative Complications; D011859:Radiography