TY - JOUR T1 - Recurrent pneumothoraces in a 65-year-old female: an unusual case of cystic lung disease JF - European Respiratory Review JO - EUROPEAN RESPIRATORY REVIEW SP - 271 LP - 272 DO - 10.1183/09059180.00005013 VL - 23 IS - 132 AU - Sy Giin Chong AU - Patrick Mitchell AU - Aurelie Fabre AU - Timothy J. McDonnell Y1 - 2014/06/01 UR - http://err.ersjournals.com/content/23/132/271.abstract N2 - A 65-year-old female presented to the emergency department with a 3-day history of dyspnoea and right-sided chest discomfort. She had been an inpatient 6 weeks earlier with right-sided pneumothorax treated with a computed tomography-guided chest drain. On this admission her chest radiograph demonstrated a recurrence of the pneumothorax (fig. 1). She was a life long nonsmoker.Figure 1. a) Chest radiograph showing a loculated right-sided pneumothorax. b) Histology of the lung tissue (from open lung biopsy) showed multiple … ER -