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44 year old woman has pain in back and under left rib cage. pain worsens when laying down. duration for approximately one week.?
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Pleurisy or muscular: Most of the time pain in the chest is either from inflammation of the lining of the lungs known as pleurisy or from a muscle pull/strain.
Answered 10/18/2016
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