A Rare Cause of Chest Pain

Foreign body ingestion occurs mostly among children and mentally impaired adults. We present a case of an esophageal foreign body in a mentally healthy adult presenting with chest pain. The early recognition and treatment of a sharp, pointed foreign body are imperative for appropriate treatment, whi...

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Autor principal: Saleem, Saad
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2018
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Emergency Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6128602/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30202673
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.2942
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description Foreign body ingestion occurs mostly among children and mentally impaired adults. We present a case of an esophageal foreign body in a mentally healthy adult presenting with chest pain. The early recognition and treatment of a sharp, pointed foreign body are imperative for appropriate treatment, which can prevent possible complications. The esophageal foreign body should be considered a possible cause of non-cardiac chest pain in the emergency department.
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spelling pubmed-61286022018-09-10 A Rare Cause of Chest Pain Saleem, Saad Cureus Emergency Medicine Foreign body ingestion occurs mostly among children and mentally impaired adults. We present a case of an esophageal foreign body in a mentally healthy adult presenting with chest pain. The early recognition and treatment of a sharp, pointed foreign body are imperative for appropriate treatment, which can prevent possible complications. The esophageal foreign body should be considered a possible cause of non-cardiac chest pain in the emergency department. Cureus 2018-07-08 /pmc/articles/PMC6128602/ /pubmed/30202673 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.2942 Text en Copyright © 2018, Saleem et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6128602/
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