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I am not a doctor, and the treatment probably varies depending on your doctor.

Today I received a lung needle biopsy (through my back, not chest). The radiologist told me before the operation that I would have roughly a 1 in 4 chance of a lung collapse. If your lung collapses, that means that air leaks out of your lung and into your chest area. He also told me that if my lung did collapse, that there was only a 1 in 4 chance that they would have to treat it. Sometimes it will just adjust itself slowly as you breathe. My lung did not collapse.

If they would have treated it, then they would have inserted a tube to vacuum out some air from the lung. I don't know how this would fix it, but it is the procedure my doctor told me they would use.

I'm 15 and the reason for the biopsy is that I had coughed up blood a couple times at my house. At the walk-in, they found a mass in the upper lobe of my right lung. They completely put me "under" for the operation (this may have to do with my age).

The operation was this morning and I now feel fine. Breathing is normal, but I am fairly sore. I was told to not move around too much or do heavy lifting for a couple of days.

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