Acute Chest Pain Related to Pericardial Fat Necrosis
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Acute Chest Pain Related to Pericardial Fat Necrosis
An otherwise healthy 56-year-old woman (BMI, 31 kg/m) presented to our emergency department with acute nonradiating left-sided chest pain. She had no associated dyspnea, fever, or other clinical findings. An electrocardiogram and serum troponin level were unremarkable. Nonenhanced computed tomography (CT) of the chest (Figure 1) showed a left anterior low-attenuation (−80HU) pericardial mass wi...
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عنوان ژورنال: Canadian Respiratory Journal
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1198-2241,1916-7245
DOI: 10.1155/2016/1948325