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New moderate to large left pneumothorax.
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A portable chest x-ray (CXR) showed a large left spontaneous pneumothorax without features of tension (Figure 1).
Left pigtail pleural catheter placed.
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CXR after pigtail catheter placement showed satisfactory re-expansion with a small residual apical pneumothorax (Figure 2).