title: Acute pneumothorax.
abstract: Pneumothorax may be spontaneous or can occur as a complication of chest trauma. Patients present with a wide range of symptoms, the severity of which may not correlate well with the degree of pneumothorax. Classification and current therapies are presented here.
authors.affiliation: Emergency Department, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Perth, Western Australia.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Dann
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D004630:Emergencies; D006801:Humans; D011030:Pneumothorax / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy*