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Right Pneumothorax

The female patient shown below presented with shortness of breath and right sided pleuritic chest pain. The chest radiograph demonstrated a large right pneumothorax with compressive atelectasis of the right lung. Despite chest tube placement, the pneumothorax persistent and the patient required thoracoscopic surgery for apical blebs.

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