- artificial pneumothorax
- pneumothorax induced intentionally by artificial means; formerly used as a method of collapse therapy (q.v.) in treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis. Called also induced p. and therapeutic p.
Medical dictionary. 2011.
artificial pneumothorax
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