Painless aortic dissection with slurred speech (Neurologic symptom)
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Painless aortic dissection with initial symptom of right upper extremity weakness: a case report.
Thoracic aortic dissection is a dangerous disease. It usually presents as severe chest or back pain. Symptoms resulting from aortic branch involvement may also be involved. Sometimes, it presents with atypical symptoms. Here, we report a patient who came to the emergency department (ED) because of acute onset of right upper limb weakness and numbness. Brain computed tomography (CT) was performe...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Emergency Practice and Trauma
سال: 2020
ISSN: 2383-4544
DOI: 10.34172/jept.2020.18