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Familial pneumothorax: towards precision medicine.
Thorax - 1 Mar 2018
Scott Rachel M, Henske Elizabeth P, Raby Benjamin, Boone Philip M, Rusk Rosemary A, Marciniak Stefan J
Abstract excerpt
One in 10 patients suffering from primary spontaneous pneumothoraces has a family history of the disorder. Such familial pneumothoraces can occur in isolation, but can also be the presentation of serious genetic disorders with life-threatening vascular or cancerous complications. As the pneumothorax frequently precedes the more dangerous complications by many years, it provides an opportunity to intervene in a...
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