A _______ results when an injury allows air to enter through a hole in the chest wall or the surface of the lung as the patient attempts to breathe, causing the lung on that side to collapse.
A. tension pneumonthorax
B. hemothorax
C. hemopneumonthorax
D. pneumonthorax
Answer: D. pneumonthorax
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