Article Text
Emergency casebook
Mobile diagnosis: Hamman's crunch in a primary spontaneous pneumothorax
Abstract
Mobile phone technology is gaining popularity in healthcare systems, particularly in providing clinical care to patients. A novel use of a mobile phone by a patient to record praecordial sounds (Hamman's crunch) is described which helped in the diagnosis of his condition.
- Hamman sign
- pneumothorax
- crunch
- mobile phone
- chest–non trauma
- imaging
- x-ray
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