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M mode imaging of this video would show the stratosphere or barcode sign of impaired lung sliding. This patient had a pneumothorax, and so the pleural line does not glisten or shimmer. The rib shadows can be seen on either side of the bright pleural line that moves, but does not change in the way expected in normal lung. It is worthwhile to compare this directly to any of the videos of normal lung in this chapter.