Different: Hemothorax is blood fluid rhat collects around the lung from trauma or injury as an example. Pneumothorax is collection of air around the lung from an air leak.
Answered 9/9/2013
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Air or blood: Pneumothorax is an accumulation of air outside your lung but inside your chest/ribcage. Hemothorax is an accumulation of blood outside your lung but inside your chest/ribcage. Both may be commonly described as "collapsed lung" because the air and/or blood in this space displaces your lung and prevents complete expansion of your lung.
Answered 3/15/2016
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Blood or air: Both are collections within the chest- pleural space. Hemo is blood pneumo is air.
Answered 3/26/2018
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