The most interesting of these peritoneal abscesses is the variety to which Leyden has given the name of pyo-pneumothorax subphrenicus (false pneumothorax of Cossy), the diagnostic features of which first were recognized by G.
By the encroachment of this cavity upon the thoracic space the symptoms and signs of pyo-pneumothorax are simulated.
In Sturges's case of recovery from pneumothorax supposed to be produced by perforation of a gastric ulcer the diagnosis of the cause of the pneumothorax was very doubtful (The Lancet, Feb.
Should the pleura be perforated by sudden puncture pyo-pneumothorax is inevitable.
Pneumothorax is the only pathologic condition associated with signs similar to those of expiratory, valve-like bronchial obstruction by a foreign body.
Pneumothorax and empyema follow perforation into the pleural cavity.
I saw pneumothorax three times out of about half a dozen Martini-Henry wounds, but I do not think it occurred as often in 100 small-calibre wounds.
This is one way of avoiding pushing air out through a fractured trachea and down into each chest cavity, which would cause a pneumothorax or a collapse of the lungs.
There was no evidence of a hemothorax or a pneumothorax through my examination; only it is sufficient this could have been observed because of the free blood in the mediastinum.
Hemothorax would be blood in the free chest cavity and pneumothorax would be air in the free chest cavity underlying collapse of the lungs.
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