Pneumothorax Treatment Uptodate. Evaluation of 115 patients with primary and secondary spontaneous pneumothorax treated with tube thoracostomy revealed nearly maximal healing rates after 48 hours without a. Pneumothorax is a common medical condition encountered in a wide variety of clinical presentations, ranging from asymptomatic to life threatening.
The management of secondary spontaneous. Primary spontaneous pneumothorax (psp) is a pneumothorax occurring in children without underlying lung disease and in the absence of provoking factors such as trauma,.