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Chronic pulmonary diseases, such as chronic bronchitis, emphysema, tuberculosis, lung cancer, pneumonia, and thoracic surgery, may be associated with a higher risk of iatrogenic pneumothorax after acupuncture. Even if the incidence of pneumothorax should be low under caution and fully evaluated, it is still recommended to arrange further imaging examinations to rule out the possibility of iatrogenic pneumothorax.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/medicina59061100","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,6,7]],"date-time":"2023-06-07T03:04:49Z","timestamp":1686107089000},"page":"1100","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":11,"title":["Iatrogenic Pneumothorax during Acupuncture: Case Report"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"59","author":[{"given":"Wen-Shan","family":"Chiu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Chinese Medicine, Show Chawn Memorial Hospital, Changhua 500, Taiwan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Yu-Wen","family":"Lu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Chinese Medicine, Show Chawn Memorial Hospital, Changhua 500, Taiwan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Ting-Hsuan","family":"Lien","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Chinese Medicine, Show Chawn Memorial Hospital, Changhua 500, Taiwan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,6,7]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"30675","DOI":"10.1038\/srep30675","article-title":"Acupuncture for musculoskeletal pain: A meta-analysis and meta-regression of sham-controlled randomized clinical trials","volume":"6","author":"Yuan","year":"2016","journal-title":"Sci. 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