Dear editor,Patients frequently visit the emergency room with acute chest pain.While some potentially life-threatening disorders may cause the pain,in approximately 80%of cases,the chest pain source is benign,and musc...Dear editor,Patients frequently visit the emergency room with acute chest pain.While some potentially life-threatening disorders may cause the pain,in approximately 80%of cases,the chest pain source is benign,and musculoskeletal chest pain accounts for nearly 20%– 50%of those cases.^[1–6]Thus,pain caused by benign and pathological conditions of the chest wall encountered in the emergency department is sometimes incorrectly attributed to angina pectoris or pleuritic and other serious cardiopulmonary diseases.展开更多
文摘Dear editor,Patients frequently visit the emergency room with acute chest pain.While some potentially life-threatening disorders may cause the pain,in approximately 80%of cases,the chest pain source is benign,and musculoskeletal chest pain accounts for nearly 20%– 50%of those cases.^[1–6]Thus,pain caused by benign and pathological conditions of the chest wall encountered in the emergency department is sometimes incorrectly attributed to angina pectoris or pleuritic and other serious cardiopulmonary diseases.
