A pulmonary bleb is a small collection of air between the lung and the outer surface of the lung (visceral pleura) usually found in the upper lobe of the lung. When a bleb ruptures the air escapes ...
As they take a humorous look at the procedure of inducing a pneumothorax, these photographs of in-patients from a sanatorium near Gratz, Austria, in the 1930s also take us on a truncated journey ...