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My right rib cage isn't even with the left and i've been having shortness of breath, as if my lungs don't have enough room to expand, what is goin on?
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SOB, asymetric chest: Either a collapsed lung( with unilateral atelectasis due to a central obstructing lesion) or a pneumothorax(possibly under "tension") or a unilateral pleural effusion or a diaphragmatic hernia (with viscera up in the chest).
Answered 7/12/2016
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