Open AccessPicture Quiz: A Case of Sudden Severe Chest Pain
Author(s) -
M Abu Rabia,
Preston Sullivan,
Stavros Stivaros
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
acute medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.14
H-Index - 12
eISSN - 1747-4892
pISSN - 1747-4884
DOI - 10.52964/amja.0149
Subject(s) - medicine , epigastric pain , shoulders , vomiting , chest pain , medical history , past medical history , emergency department , general surgery , surgery , psychiatry
An 18-year-old male with no previous medical history presented to hospital with sudden onset of acute epigastric pain radiating to the anterior chest wall and both shoulders. There was no history of recent trauma and he had not been vomiting.