Management of Spontaneous Pneumothorax
- 1 December 1963
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of Surgery
- Vol. 87 (6) , 1023-1028
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archsurg.1963.01310180139023
Abstract
Itard1 first recognized pneumothorax as a pathological entity and gave it a name in 1803; however, it was Laennec,2 in 1819, who gave an accurate clinical and autopsy description of spontaneous pneumothorax and first appreciated its possible relationship to emphysema and bleb formation. Tuberculosis was considered to be the predominant cause of spontaneous pneumothorax by most in the later 19th century and the early 20th century. However, Laennec, in 1819; McDowell,* in 1856; Chauffard,4 in 1896; and Fussell and Riesman,5 in 1902, seriously questioned this concept by case reports in which they were unable to demonstrate tuberculosis. It remained for Kjaergaard,6 in 1933, to establish finally that the large majority of spontaneous pneumothoraces are of a nontuberculous origin and to stimulate further clinical and pathological studies to establish its etiology. Tuberculosis was seldom incriminated as the cause of spontaneous pneumothorax in our patients. Over 80%Keywords
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