A 92-Year-Old Man with Abdominal Pain Following Intractable Vomiting; a Photo Quiz
Archives of Academic Emergency Medicine,
Vol. 7 No. 1 (2019),
1 January 2019
,
Page e42
https://doi.org/10.22037/aaem.v7i1.427
Abstract
A 92-year-old man with hypertension, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), peptic ulcer disease and dementia presented to the emergency department with a 2-day history of abdominal pain in the left upper quadrant, distention, dry cough and intractable vomiting. On physical examination, the patient had epigastric tenderness and bowel sounds were reduced.- Emergency department
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