This case report highlights the preoperative diagnosis of a congenital pericardial defect in a patient with spontaneous pneumothorax and pneumopericardium, successfully managed with bullae resection.
Adds to sparse literature on congenital pericardial defects with pneumothorax; hypothesis-generating and should not change practice.
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