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My chest is burning!

October 8, 2009 By 2 Comments

The Minerva section of the British Medical Journal was probably the only part of any medical journal I used to look at when I was a medical student. It has taken me sometime to find it, but the following chest radiograph of a West Indian man with severe burning chest pain must be seen to be believed.

Are those flames you can see?

Burning chest pain
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  1. Ravichandra says:
    October 16, 2009 at 1:49 pm

    Can anyone explain this??Whats spontaneous combustion??

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  2. Chris Nickson says:
    October 16, 2009 at 2:09 pm

    Hi Ravichandra,

    I suggest checking out the Wikipedia article on ‘Spontaneous Human Combustion’ -- radio-opaque dreadlocks I’m sure you’ll agree is much more likely…

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spontaneous_human_combustion

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