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Lateral chest radiograph (close-up view of hilar area) in a 17-year-old boy with asthma with spontaneous pneumomediastinum shows a well-defined lucency (arrows) along the right pulmonary artery due to mediastinal air. This appearance is known as the ring-around-the-artery sign.