An 81 Year Old with Back Pain

An 81 Year Old with Back Pain

You see an 81-year-old man in the emergency department. He has been troubled by abdominal and back pain that has been worsening over the last two days. He has smoked 20 cigarettes a day for the last 60 years. On examination his heart rate is 110 beats per minute and his blood pressure is 130/80 mmhg...

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Veröffentlicht in:Annals of medicine and surgery 2013-01, Vol.2 (1), p.41-42
Hauptverfasser: Dubb, Sukhpreet S., MBBS BSc(Hons), Farrant, Joanna M., FRCR, Praveen, B.V., FRCS MD, Miles-Dua, Sascha, FRCS MD
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Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Acute abdomen
Aneurysm
CT scan
Internal Medicine
Shock
Surgery
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Zusammenfassung:You see an 81-year-old man in the emergency department. He has been troubled by abdominal and back pain that has been worsening over the last two days. He has smoked 20 cigarettes a day for the last 60 years. On examination his heart rate is 110 beats per minute and his blood pressure is 130/80 mmhg. He is tender over the central abdomen and you feel a pulsatile mass above the umbilicus. You request a CT scan of the abdomen.
ISSN:2049-0801
2049-0801
DOI:10.1016/S2049-0801(13)70032-3