Recurrent pneumothoraces in a 65-year-old female: an unusual case of cystic lung disease

A 65-year-old female presented to the emergency department with a 3-day history of dyspnoea and right-sided chest discomfort. She had been an inpatient 6 weeks earlier with right-sided pneumothorax treated with a computed tomography-guided chest drain. On this admission her chest radiograph demonstrated a recurrence of the pneumothorax (fig. 1). She was a life long nonsmoker. Figure 1. a) Chest radiograph showing a loculated right-sided pneumothorax. b) Histology of the lung tissue (from open lung biopsy) showed multiple …