pneumothorax
abnormal collection of air in the pleural space
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Summary
pneumothorax is a rare disease[1]. pneumothorax ranks in the top 2% of rare disease entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (8,621 views/month).[2]
Key Facts
- Instance of: clinical sign[3], class of disease[4]
- Subclass of: pleural disease[5], emphysema[6]
- Commons category: Pneumothorax[7]
- ICPC 2 ID: R99[8]
- Symptoms and signs: chest pain[9], dyspnea[10], dry cough[11]
- Medical examination: chest radiograph[12], medical ultrasonography[13], computed tomography[14]
- Possible treatment: chest tube[15], conservative management[16], pleurodesis[17]
- Described by source: Desktop Encyclopedic Dictionary[18], Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 5[19], The Unified Medical Dictionary (Librairie du Liban, 2009)[20]
- ICD-9-CM: 512.8[21]
- NCI Thesaurus ID: C38006[22]
- Health specialty: emergency medicine[23], pulmonology[24], thoracic surgery[25]
- Drug or therapy used for treatment: talc[26]
- Genetic association: FLCN[27]
- Exact match: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/DOID_1673[28], http://identifiers.org/doid/DOID:1673[29], http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/HP_0002107[30]
- On focus list of Wikimedia project: WikiProject Medicine[31]
Why It Matters
pneumothorax has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[32] pneumothorax is known by 57 alternative names across languages and contexts.[33]