Prevalence of atypical chest pain descriptions in a population from the southern United States

American Journal of the Medical Sciences

Volumn 318, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 142-145

  Summers, Richard L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Atypical angina; Chest pain; Myocardial infarction

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CULTURAL FACTOR; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; SEMANTICS; THORAX PAIN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0033499339     PISSN: 00029629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9629(15)40605-6     Document Type: Article

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