ABSTRACT

Spontaneous hemopneumothorax is a disease rarely accompanied by spontaneous pneumothorax. Delay in diagnosis and treatment may result in mortality. We considered that hemothorax (spontaneous hemopneumothorax) accompanied by spontaneous pneumothorax may develop in a young patient not having trauma and bleeding, we aimed to investigate the existing treatment methods.

Keywords: Spontaneous hemopneumothorax, tube thorascostomy, thoracotomy