Abstract
Pain in the chest is one of the most frequent presenting symptoms in old age and commonly gives rise to considerable concern as the patient rightly or wrongly believes it to represent serious heart disease. A methodological approach to the problem might be by systems, but it is often simpler to use a clinico-anatomical strategy to arrive at a differential diagnosis. Such an approach allows one to classify chest pain as either central or lateral.
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Constant J (ed) (1985) Bedside cardiology, 3rd edn. Little, Brown and Company, Boston
Hamdy RC (1984) Chest pain. In: Hamdy RC Geriatric medicine; a problem-solving approach. Ballière Tindall, London pp 41–51
Timmis GC, Westveer DC, Hauser AM, Stewart JR, Dressendorfer RH, O’Neill WW (1985) Cardiovascular review, 6th edn. Grune and Stratton, Orlando
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Pathy, M.S.J. (1989). Chest Pain. In: Geriatric Medicine. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-1646-2_4
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