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Pushing beyond the limit: a novel clinical sign of thoracic aortic dissection

The timely diagnosis of aortic dissection is notoriously confounded by unreliable symptomatology. We present a previously unreported clinical sign: thoracic pain reproduced by abdominal palpation. Our case illustrates the dependence of traditional clinical features on the anatomical location of an a...

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Autores principales: Meredith, Thomas, Jain, Pankaj, Feneley, Michael
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5720248/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29167214
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2017-221653