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Old Man with Groin Bruising
A 67-year-old man presented to the emergency department with abdominal pain and groin bruising. He had no history of any disease or drug use. In his breaf story he had a heavy cough five days ago and bruises appeared on the abdomen skin and groin in the last two days. Ecchymosis extends in the midli...
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Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California, Irvine School of Medicine
2014
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4251238/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25493137 http://dx.doi.org/10.5811/westjem.2014.8.16095 |
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author | Bayram, Basak Oray, Nese C. Acara, Cagdas A. |
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description | A 67-year-old man presented to the emergency department with abdominal pain and groin bruising. He had no history of any disease or drug use. In his breaf story he had a heavy cough five days ago and bruises appeared on the abdomen skin and groin in the last two days. Ecchymosis extends in the midline from umblicus to the penis and scrotum in physical examination (Figure 1). Laboratory evaluation revealed normal hemoglobin level, platelet count, prothrombin time, and activated partial thromboplastin time. |
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spelling | pubmed-42512382014-12-09 Old Man with Groin Bruising Bayram, Basak Oray, Nese C. Acara, Cagdas A. West J Emerg Med Diagnostic Acumen A 67-year-old man presented to the emergency department with abdominal pain and groin bruising. He had no history of any disease or drug use. In his breaf story he had a heavy cough five days ago and bruises appeared on the abdomen skin and groin in the last two days. Ecchymosis extends in the midline from umblicus to the penis and scrotum in physical examination (Figure 1). Laboratory evaluation revealed normal hemoglobin level, platelet count, prothrombin time, and activated partial thromboplastin time. Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California, Irvine School of Medicine 2014-11 2014-10-10 /pmc/articles/PMC4251238/ /pubmed/25493137 http://dx.doi.org/10.5811/westjem.2014.8.16095 Text en Copyright © 2014 the authors. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/. |
spellingShingle | Diagnostic Acumen Bayram, Basak Oray, Nese C. Acara, Cagdas A. Old Man with Groin Bruising |
title | Old Man with Groin Bruising |
title_full | Old Man with Groin Bruising |
title_fullStr | Old Man with Groin Bruising |
title_full_unstemmed | Old Man with Groin Bruising |
title_short | Old Man with Groin Bruising |
title_sort | old man with groin bruising |
topic | Diagnostic Acumen |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4251238/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25493137 http://dx.doi.org/10.5811/westjem.2014.8.16095 |
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