title: [First case of pneumothorax as a late complication to a minitracheostomy].
abstract: A 39-year-old female with multiple sclerosis was admitted to the emergency department with severe shortness of breath. Fifteen days prior to the admission the patient had undergone a minitracheostomi. At admission a chest X-ray revealed a right-sided pneumothorax and a minitracheostomy tube displaced into the right thorax cavity. The patient was treated with a chest tube and later a permanent tracheostomy. This is the first case report of a minitracheostomy tube causing a pneumothorax not in immediate relation to the procedure.
authors.affiliation: Lindevej 23, 5250 Odense SV. nicki_e_bauer@hotmail.com.
authors.forename: Nicki Eithz
authors.initials: NE
authors.lastname: Bauer
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D004322:Drainage; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D011030:Pneumothorax / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology* / Q000628:therapy; D013902:Radiography, Thoracic; D014139:Tracheostomy / Q000009:adverse effects*