Psychiatric syndromes associated with atypical chest pain
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Atypical chest pain.
Chest pain is a common reason why patients seek medical consultation. Chest pain can be caused by life-threatening diseases and requires extensive diagnostic evaluation, especially to exclude acute cardiac pathologies. However, in the case of atypical chest pain with a normal electrocardiogram and serum levels of myocardial necrosis markers with in the reference ranges, non-cardiac causes of ch...
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عنوان ژورنال: Military Medical and Pharmaceutical Journal of Serbia
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0042-8450,2406-0720
DOI: 10.2298/vsp1007530n