Hereditary pulmonary emphysema.

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To further elucidate the etiology of spontaneous pneumothorax (SP), a study was made of three nonsmoking patients who had experienced several episodes of chest radiograph-verified familial SP (FSP) and 11 unaffected relatives, 5 of whom were smokers and 6 of whom were never-smokers. Fourteen healthy subjects without SP served as a control group. All three groups underwent the same clinical, laboratory, and...

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