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Rita Costa1, David Coelho2, Pedro Fernandes1
1Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Centro Hospitalar Universitário São João, Porto, Portugal.
Portuguese Journal of Cardiac Thoracic and Vascular Surgery
|March 25, 2022
Abstract:
A 40 years-old woman with a previous history of a right pneumothorax in 2013 had a left pneumothorax with persistent air leak in 2020. The computerized tomography scan of the chest described diffuse emphysematous changes with multiple "small bullae" in the upper lobes. She was submitted to mechanical and chemical pleurodesis with a wedge apical resection by uniportal video-assisted thoracic surgery. Pathological findings confirm the diagnosis of pulmonary lymphangioleiomyomatosis.

