When someone with a pneumothorax lies supine -- as in the 23-year old man described in this New England Journal mini-case from Saweera Sabbar and Eric James Nilles of Rashid Trauma Center in Dubai, UAE -- air rises laterally and caudally, and creates displacement downward and medially of the hemidiaphragm, displaying as the "deep sulcus sign" on radiographs.
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When someone with a pneumothorax lies supine -- as in the 23-year old man described in this New England Journal mini-case from Saweera Sabbar and Eric James Nilles of Rashid Trauma Center in Dubai, UAE -- air rises laterally and caudally, and creates displacement downward and medially of the hemidiaphragm, displaying as the "deep sulcus sign" on radiographs.