Personality traits associated with different chest pains after myocardial infarction.
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Personality traits associated with different chest pains after myocardial infarction.
Most patients who have had an acute myocardial infarction later experience pain in the chest of one sort or another. Angina pectoris is the commonest pain, and one in or including the left anterior chest is the next commonest single entity. The factors which determine post-infarction pain are complex. Clinical observation suggests that they include mental ones. Angina pectoris is often induced ...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 1967
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.3.5561.327