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Chest Pain (cont.)

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Media file 1:Sources and locations of different causes of chest pain.


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Media file 2:Spontaneous pneumothorax. Left: Normal lung with positive pressure outside of the thorax. Right: Positive pressure within the thoracic cavity preventing expansion of the lung.
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