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Chapter 31, Problem 16WIO
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The reasons for the difficulty for a person to fully expand a collapsed lung when a broken rib can sometime puncture a lung, causing it to collapse and a collapsed lung leaks air into the chest cavity.
Concept introduction:
A pneumothorax can be defined as a collapsed lung due to excess air in the pleural space which is between the lung and the chest cavity. The excess air causes pressure against the lung which causes it to collapse.
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