A patient presenting painful chest wall swelling: Tietze syndrome

作     者：Kohei Sawada Hiromi Ihoriya Taihei Yamada Tetsuya Yumoto Kohei Tsukahara Takaaki Osako Hiromichi Naito Atsunori Nakao 

作者机构：Department of Emergency Critical Care and Disaster Medicine Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences 

出 版 物：《World Journal of Emergency Medicine》 (世界急诊医学杂志（英文）)

年 卷 期：2019年第10卷第2期

页      面：122-124页

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学科分类：1002[医学-临床医学] 10[医学] 

主　　题：Patients frequently emergency room life-threatening 

摘      要：Dear editor,Patients frequently visit the emergency room with acute chest *** some potentially life-threatening disorders may cause the pain,in approximately 80%of cases,the chest pain source is benign,and musculoskeletal chest pain accounts for nearly 20%– 50%of those cases.^[1–6]Thus,pain caused by benign and pathological conditions of the chest wall encountered in the emergency department is sometimes incorrectly attributed to angina pectoris or pleuritic and other serious cardiopulmonary diseases.