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What is the difference between a hemothorax and a pneumothorax?

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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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Dr. Loki Skylizard answered

Specializes in Thoracic Surgery

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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Dr. Creighton Wright answered

Specializes in surgery

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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