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    Lung Over Expansion

    Dear All

    There are 4 types of lung over expansion. I just don't recall there names, so can anyone help me out in this.

    I can only remember only 2 of them which is gase empolism, pneumothorux. I want the name of the other 2 (the one the air enter the cavity or the gap of the heart and the other one is the one the air found under the skin around the neck)

    Thanks a lot for your help
    Gehad

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    The four types are

    - bad
    - really bad
    - horrible
    - fatal



    Ok seriously.

    Arterial gas embolism
    Mediastinal Emphysema (middle of the chest)
    Subcutaneous Emphysema (around the neck)
    Pneumothorax

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    thanks a lot for the inforamtion, I do really aprecitate it
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