TY - JOUR A2 - Yoshimura, N. A2 - Murchison, J. T. A2 - Lang, I. AU - Sood, Nidhi AU - Sood, Nikhil PY - 2011 DA - 2011/10/09 TI - A Rare Case of Vanishing Lung Syndrome SP - 957463 VL - 2011 AB - We describe here a rare case of Idiopathic Bullous Emphysema/Vanishing Lung Syndrome (VLS) in a 33-year-old male patient with a history of marijuana abuse who presents to the hospital with pleuritic chest pain thought to be due to pneumothorax based on the chest radiograph. This case emphasizes the need to obtain chest computed tomography in a relatively stable patient suspected of VLS to reduce the potential risk of overseeing a bronchopleural fistula. SN - 2090-6846 UR - https://doi.org/10.1155/2011/957463 DO - 10.1155/2011/957463 JF - Case Reports in Pulmonology PB - Hindawi Publishing Corporation KW - ER -