An Often-Overlooked Etiology of Pleuritic Chest Pain

J Gen Intern Med. 2016 Jan;31(1):138. doi: 10.1007/s11606-015-3316-4. Epub 2015 Apr 14.

Authors

Jacob E Berchuck¹, Shalini Patel^{2

3}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, 505 Parnassus Avenue, Room M-987, San Francisco, CA, 94143-0119, USA. jacob.berchuck@ucsf.edu.
² Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, 505 Parnassus Avenue, Room M-987, San Francisco, CA, 94143-0119, USA.
³ Department of Medicine, San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center, San Francisco, CA, USA.

No abstract available

Keywords: Cardiovascular disease; Clinical image; Diagnosis; Pulmonary disease.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Aged, 80 and over
Chest Pain / diagnostic imaging
Chest Pain / etiology*
Diagnosis, Differential
Electrocardiography
Fat Necrosis / complications*
Fat Necrosis / diagnosis
Follow-Up Studies
Humans
Male
Pericardium*
Radiography, Thoracic / methods
Tomography, X-Ray Computed / methods*