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80-Year-Old Patient with Devastating Chest Pain

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This case very clearly shows that it is not always easy to put the symptoms together at the place of use to form a coherent picture and that it must not be underestimated how often a selective perception makes the anamnesis more difficult, in the sense of: “What must not be, can not be!”

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Schnitzer, L. (2023). 80-Year-Old Patient with Devastating Chest Pain. In: Wenzel, V. (eds) Case Studies in Emergency Medicine. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-67249-5_4

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