1. Elderly woman with abdominal pain
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Cheng-Chung Liu, Cheng-Hsien Hsieh, and Ming-Yi Hsu
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medicine.medical_specialty ,Abdominal pain ,Physical examination ,Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine ,Diagnosis, Differential ,chemistry.chemical_compound ,White blood cell ,Diabetes mellitus ,Humans ,Medicine ,Serum lipase ,Aged ,Creatinine ,medicine.diagnostic_test ,business.industry ,General Medicine ,medicine.disease ,Abdominal Pain ,Surgery ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,chemistry ,Retropneumoperitoneum ,Emergency Medicine ,Female ,Radiography, Thoracic ,Radiology ,medicine.symptom ,Tomography, X-Ray Computed ,business ,Chest radiograph ,Costovertebral angle tenderness - Abstract
A 76-year-old woman with a history of hypertension and diabetes mellitus presented to the ED with abdominal pain for 1 week. On physical examination, the patient was found to have epigastric and bilateral costovertebral angle tenderness. Laboratory tests reported elevations of white blood cell count, creatinine and serum lipase. A chest radiograph was obtained (figure 1). Figure 1 A chest radiograph of the patient. What is …
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- 2016
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