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Pneumothorax after acupuncture
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- Published on: 9 September 2019
- Published on: 9 September 2019Karl Otto Geier, MD, MSc, Acupuncturist.
Dear authors. The location of the needle was interscapular, but it does not mention the exact site since the interscapular would be the spine. Anyway, I think pneumothorax must have been arrived from puncturing a pleural bubble. More, was "bounce" maneuver stimulation performed with the needle? This maneuver entails numerous punctures of the bubble, facilitating the pneumothorax.
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