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5 days now upper left side back hurts when breathing in deeply or moving certain ways. could this be lung or heart related? or just muscular/skeletal?

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Dr. Edgar Mendizabal answered

Specializes in Internal Medicine

Difficult to tll: Without exam but it sounds muscular.

Answered 2/26/2014

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