Primary and Secondary forms of pneumothorax (Collapsed lung) represent common but sometimes dangerous medical conditions. Non-experts often place or request tubes to manage collapsed lungs in the short term but are plagued with recurrence rates that often approach 85%. Dr Sternberg routinely treats these patients with minimally invasive apical wedge resection and mechanical pleuodesis and experiences shorter hospital stays than non-operatively managed patients as well as a long term recurrence rate that is less than 5%.