title: Spontaneous pneumothorax without any detectable pulmonary metastases in a patient with osteosarcoma.
abstract: An 11-year-old girl with osteosarcoma in the left distal femur, developed unilateral spontaneous pneumothorax. Pneumothorax was found at the initial presentation, but chest CT failed to reveal pulmonary metastases, bullae or blebs.
authors.affiliation: Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Kobe University School of Medicine, Japan. yamatetu@med.kobe-u.ac.jp
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Yamamoto
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Mizuno
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D005266:Femoral Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000556:secondary; D012516:Osteosarcoma / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D011030:Pneumothorax / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed