Archives of Academic Emergency Medicine (Aug 2019)

A 92-Year-Old Man with Abdominal Pain Following Intractable Vomiting; a Photo Quiz

  • Chin-Chu Wu,
  • Aming Chor-Ming Lin

DOI
https://doi.org/10.22037/aaem.v7i1.427
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1

Abstract

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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.

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