An 81 Year Old with Back Pain

You see an 81-year-old man in the emergency department. He has been troubled by abdominal and back pain that has been worsening over the last two days. He has smoked 20 cigarettes a day for the last 60 years. On examination his heart rate is 110 beats per minute and his blood pressure is 130/80 mmhg...

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Autores principales: Dubb, Sukhpreet S., Farrant, Joanna M., Praveen, B.V., Miles-Dua, Sascha
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4326113/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26977291
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S2049-0801(13)70032-3
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description You see an 81-year-old man in the emergency department. He has been troubled by abdominal and back pain that has been worsening over the last two days. He has smoked 20 cigarettes a day for the last 60 years. On examination his heart rate is 110 beats per minute and his blood pressure is 130/80 mmhg. He is tender over the central abdomen and you feel a pulsatile mass above the umbilicus. You request a CT scan of the abdomen.
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spelling pubmed-43261132016-03-14 An 81 Year Old with Back Pain Dubb, Sukhpreet S. Farrant, Joanna M. Praveen, B.V. Miles-Dua, Sascha Ann Med Surg (Lond) Article You see an 81-year-old man in the emergency department. He has been troubled by abdominal and back pain that has been worsening over the last two days. He has smoked 20 cigarettes a day for the last 60 years. On examination his heart rate is 110 beats per minute and his blood pressure is 130/80 mmhg. He is tender over the central abdomen and you feel a pulsatile mass above the umbilicus. You request a CT scan of the abdomen. Elsevier 2013-11-04 /pmc/articles/PMC4326113/ /pubmed/26977291 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S2049-0801(13)70032-3 Text en . http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/).
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