A tall, slender 17-year-old was running for track practice when he suddenly became short of breath and experienced pleuritic chest pain on one side of his chest. At the ED, the doctor noted he had tachycardia and decreased breath sounds on one side of his chest.
Is it spontaneous pneumothorax? Anaphylaxis? A pulmonary embolism? Myocardial infarction?
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