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A mysterious case of chest pain
Author(s) -
Gawthrope Ian C,
Davidson Jennifer A
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
emergency medicine australasia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.602
H-Index - 52
eISSN - 1742-6723
pISSN - 1742-6731
DOI - 10.1111/j.1742-6723.2005.00710.x
Subject(s) - medicine , chest pain , intensive care medicine , general surgery , cardiology
Atrial myxomas can present a diagnostic dilemma attributed to their broad spectrum of clinical presentations. We report the case of a 46‐year‐old woman in whom the diagnosis of atrial myxoma initially eluded cardiologists despite the large size of her tumour.