The Week contest: Hurt song

This week's question: A 65-year-old Chinese man was hospitalized with a collapsed lung following a marathon karaoke session in which he emphatically hit some very high notes. Please come up with a medical term to describe a karaoke-induced injury.
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RESULTS:
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THE WINNER: "Ow cappella"
Greg Mistele, Peapack, New Jersey
SECOND PLACE: "Total collapse of the lung"
Sean King, Sterling, Virgina
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THIRD PLACE: "Bohemian rupture"
Erik Lund, Ashburn, Virginia
HONORABLE MENTIONS:
"Unchained malady"
John Parry, Eldersburg, Maryland
"Do-re-mi-fa-so-ICU"
Harvey Levy, Frederick, Maryland
"High ceizure"
Phyllis Klein, New York City
"Paint it black lung"
Suzanne Brooks, Quechee, Vermont
"Achy breaky lung"
Maria Maglaras, Whitestone, New York
"Manilowma"
John Holler, St. Cloud, Minnesota
"B flat-lined"
Patty Oberhausen, Fort Wayne, Indiana
"Croon-ic lung disease"
Lisa Stephens, Colbert, Georgia
"Trachea-oke"
Renée Rauch, New York City
"Singin’ in the pain"
David Hills, Saint Joseph, Michigan
"Mal-aria"
Craig Kesselheim, Southwest Harbor, Maine
"Open mic plight"
Bill Mistele, New City, New York
"Arethasclerosis"
Tim Mistele, Coral Gables, Florida
"Sing-a-lung disease"
Alan Martin, Park Ridge, Illinois
"Epstein Barr-itone"
Catherine Pomiecko, Natick, Massachusetts
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