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A 28-year-old man is undergoing a treatment for pulmonary tuberculosis. He has complains of shortness of breath and a sharp chest pain on the right that appeared suddenly. Percussion detects a bandbox resonance over the right lung, auscultation detects no breathing there. X-ray has shown that the right lung is collapsed to its root by 1/2 of its volume, the heart and mediastinal organs are shifted to the left. What complication has developed in this patient?

Answer options

  1. Dry pleurisy
  2. Spontaneous pneumothorax
  3. Exudative pleurisy
  4. Pleural empyema
  5. Pulmonary infarction
Correct answer

Spontaneous pneumothorax

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