title: Idiopathic, bilateral pneumothorax: case report in a young child.
abstract: Unilateral, idiopathic pneumothorax (IP) is relatively common and occurs predominantly in males in their teens and twenties, with 85% presenting before age forty. In contrast, bilateral IP occurs rarely, with only three cases reported from 1977-87. To our knowledge, only one case of bilateral IP has been reported in the pediatric population, an adolescent male with likely recurrent disease. We present a case of a 7-year-old child with bilateral IP and discuss the diagnosis, pathophysiology, and treatment of this entity.
authors.affiliation: Emergency Medical Trauma Center, Children's National Medical Center, Washington, District of Columbia 20010, USA.
authors.forename: P S
authors.initials: PS
authors.lastname: Dayan
authors.forename: B L
authors.initials: BL
authors.lastname: Klein
mesh_terms: D001416:Back Pain / Q000209:etiology; D002637:Chest Pain / Q000209:etiology; D015505:Chest Tubes; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D010102:Oxygen Inhalation Therapy; D011030:Pneumothorax / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000628:therapy; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed