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- Title
Concurrent Left-Sided Spontaneous Pneumothorax in Japanese Monogerminal Twins.
- Authors
Tsukadaira, Akihiro; Okubo, Yoshio; Ota, Masao; Hotta, Junichi; Kubo, Keishi
- Abstract
Monogerminal twin brothers aged 17 were admitted because of concurrent left-sided spontaneous pneumothorax. A familial background of this common disease in association with the human leukocyte antigen (HLA) has been suggested; however, the actual mode of inheritance in association with HLA typing is still uncertain. HLA analysis in this family revealed the HLA-A24, B61 (40), Cw3, DR4, DR53, and DQ3 haplotype in the twins and their father, who also had a medical history of spontaneous pneumothorax. We report these cases as an extremely rare example of familial occurrence of spontaneous pneumothorax. Copyright © 2001 S. Karger AG, Basel
- Publication
Respiration, 2001, Vol 68, Issue 6, p625
- ISSN
0025-7931
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1159/000050585