The Reassuring CT Scan with a Lethal Diagnosis

Overview

Journal BMJ Case Rep

Specialty General Medicine

Date 2019 Feb 1

PMID 30700460

Authors

Ian Y Goh

Shuangli Wang

Mark Ray

Joy Chakraborty

Affiliations

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Abstract

We discuss an interesting case of a patient who presented with symptoms of abdominal and worsening chronic back pain with a known history of abdominal aortic aneurysm.

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