Elderly Man With Dyspnea
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Dyspnea and tracheal mass in an elderly man.
T he patient was a 72-year-old man with a supenor mediastinal, paratracheal mass that was first noted on a chest x-ray film obtained 3 years earlier during a hospitalization after a tractor accident. Further evaluation was not undertaken at that time given the seriousness of the patient’s trauma. The patient survived his injuries and over the following 3 years noted progressive breathlessness w...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Annals of Emergency Medicine
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0196-0644
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2015.09.006