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The importance of inspection in clinical cardiology: Frank's sign

The Frank's sign (FS) is a diagonal earlobe crease running from the tragus to the edge of the auricle. In this case, we describe a 71 years‐old male patient with FS who presented to the emergency department complaining of epigastric pain. A non‐ST elevation myocardial infarction was diagnosed....

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Autores principales: Bazoukis, George, Papadatos, Stamatis S., Varrias, Dimitrios, Tse, Gary
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9309615/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35898762
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.6150
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author Bazoukis, George
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description The Frank's sign (FS) is a diagonal earlobe crease running from the tragus to the edge of the auricle. In this case, we describe a 71 years‐old male patient with FS who presented to the emergency department complaining of epigastric pain. A non‐ST elevation myocardial infarction was diagnosed.
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spelling pubmed-93096152022-07-26 The importance of inspection in clinical cardiology: Frank's sign Bazoukis, George Papadatos, Stamatis S. Varrias, Dimitrios Tse, Gary Clin Case Rep Case Report The Frank's sign (FS) is a diagonal earlobe crease running from the tragus to the edge of the auricle. In this case, we describe a 71 years‐old male patient with FS who presented to the emergency department complaining of epigastric pain. A non‐ST elevation myocardial infarction was diagnosed. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2022-07-25 /pmc/articles/PMC9309615/ /pubmed/35898762 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.6150 Text en © 2022 The Authors. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non‐commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.
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