Epidemiology of spontaneous pneumothorax: gender-related differences
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Epidemiology of spontaneous pneumothorax in women.
An epidemiologic study was done on spontaneous pneumothorax in women. Six hundred sixty-four patients with spontaneous pneumothorax comprising 409 with idiopathic pneumothorax (61.6 percent), and 255 with secondary pneumothorax (38.4 percent) were studied. By age, idiopathic pneumothorax had its peak incidence in the 20s and secondary pneumothorax the 30s. Secondary pneumothorax included iatrog...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Thorax
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0040-6376
DOI: 10.1136/thoraxjnl-2014-206577