Atypical chest pain: A typical humpty dumpty coinage

Texas Heart Institute Journal

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 373-374

  Fred, Herbert L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGINA PECTORIS; ATYPICAL CHEST PAIN; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; EDITORIAL; ESOPHAGOSCOPY; ESOPHAGUS DISEASE; FAT NECROSIS; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; NOMENCLATURE; PERICARDIUM; PHYSICIAN; THORAX PAIN;

CHEST PAIN; HUMANS; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC;

EID: 70449638430     PISSN: 07302347     EISSN: 15266702     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Editorial

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