From Chicago, at a meeting of the Radiological Society of North America
Obstructions that trap air deep within the lungs may explain certain breathing difficulties among some people who worked at the site of the World Trade Center following the terrorist attack on Sept. 11, 2001.
Air gets similarly trapped in asthmatic lungs, where it causes shortness of breath, coughing, and wheezing.
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