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Results 1 - 2 of 2 for Spontaneous pneumothorax
  1. Pleural Disorders (National Library of Medicine)  
    Your pleura is a large, thin sheet of tissue that wraps around the outside of your lungs and lines the inside of your chest cavity. Between the layers of ...
  2. Collapsed Lung (National Library of Medicine)  
    A collapsed lung happens when air enters the pleural space, the area between the lung and the chest wall. If it is a total collapse, it is called pneumothorax. ...