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Ann Thorac Surg 2006;82:384
© 2006 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

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Paul Vaughan, MRCS Ed 1 , John P. Duffy, FRCS(CTh) 2

1 Department of Thoracic Surgery, Glenfield Hospital, Groby Road, Leicester, LE3 9QP, United Kingdom
2 Nottingham City Hospital, Hucknall Road, Nottingham NG5 1PB, United Kingdom

(Email: paul_vaughan{at}hotmail.com).

To the Editor:

We would like to thank to Dr Weissberg for his comments [1] regarding our case report [2].

However, the comments made by Weissberg [1] are entirely inappropriate. Like Weissberg [1], we also referred to a dictionary [3]. The definition of spontaneous in the Oxford English Dictionary is as follows: "(of a natural process or event) occurring without apparent external cause." Of course we were not saying there was no cause for this hemothorax, but using the word spontaneous implied that the cause was not immediately apparent.


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  1. Weissberg D. What is a spontaneous hemothorax? (letter) Ann Thorac Surg 2006;82:384.[Free Full Text]
  2. Vaughan P, Hooper PJ, Duffy JP. Spontaneous hemothorax after caesarean sectionan unusual manifestation of diaphragmatic fenestrations. Ann Thorac Surg 2005;80:1517-1519.[Abstract/Free Full Text]
  3. The Oxford English Dictionary. 2nd ed. Oxford: Clarendon Press; 1989.

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