Shouldn't : This shouldn't cause a punctured lung, but there are circumstances where it can. If the patient is predisposed to a spontaneous punctured lung (pneumothorax), then it might.
Answered 3/9/2013
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Not exactly: Maintaining a high pulmonary-lung pressure or an acute pressure with the sneeze could cause a prexisting bleb to rupture leading to pneumothorax. Puncture is more like a knife or ice pick than a "blowout" like a valsalva or sneeze situation.
Answered 3/20/2013
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Yes: If you have underlying lung disease like bleb formation you can cause high back pressure back into lung tissue and blow out of ruptured these bleb causing spontaneous pneumothorax.
Answered 9/22/2016
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