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As the global COVID-19 pandemic has progressed, awareness of uncommon presentations and complications has increased The actual incidence of spontaneous pneumothorax was found to be 0 66%, or six patients out of 902 who tested positive in recently published literature of 3368 patients (Zantah M, Dominguez Castillo E, Townsend R, Dikengil F, Criner GJ Pneumothorax in COVID-19 disease-incidence and clinical characteristics Respir Res 2020 Sep 16;21(1):236 ) Of those six patients, only two (0 22%) were not associated with mechanical ventilation barotrauma or comorbid lung disease such as COPD Here, we present a spontaneous pneumothorax and pneumomediastinum in a patient four days after he had been discharged from hospitalization due to uncomplicated COVID-19 pneumonia
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