RT Journal
A1 CUTLER JW
T1 CLinical types of therapeutic pneumothorax and their significance
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1934
FD July 14
VO 103
IS 2
SP 81
OP 83
DO 10.1001/jama.1934.02750280001001
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1934.02750280001001
AB Of all forms of treatment in pulmonary tuberculosis, therapeutic or artificial pneumothorax occupies an increasingly important position and today it is practiced in approximately 50 per cent of all cases of tuberculosis. Rist considers it the most remarkable advance made thus far in the treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis. It has undoubtedly considerably improved the prognosis of certain very common forms of this disease that formerly were regarded as invariably hopeless.From the clinical point of view, one may consider several types of artificial pneumothorax: total collapse (complete collapse, compression pneumothorax), incomplete collapse, selective collapse (hypotensive pneumothorax, partial pneumothorax, expansile pneumothorax), simultaneous bilateral pneumothorax, and alternating pneumothorax. It is my purpose in this paper to describe in brief these various forms and to emphasize the clinical significance of each as well as some of the more important indications.TOTAL COLLAPSE 
    When Carlo Forlanini first practiced pneumothorax in 1884, he assumed that