Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 52, Issue 5 , Page 492 , November 2008

Man With Progressive Dyspnea

  • Wei-Ta Huang, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, Chi-Mei Medical Center, Yung Kang City, Tainan, Taiwan
  • ,
  • Hung-Jung Lin, MD, EMBA

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, Chi-Mei Medical Center, Yung Kang City, Tainan, Taiwan
    • Emergency Department, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan
  • ,
  • Ying-Sheng Li, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, Chi-Mei Medical Center, Yung Kang City, Tainan, Taiwan
  • ,
  • Mei-Chun Chou, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, Chi-Mei Medical Center, Yung Kang City, Tainan, Taiwan
  • ,
  • Chun-Fu Hsieh, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, Chi-Mei Medical Center, Yung Kang City, Tainan, Taiwan

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 For the diagnosis and teaching points, see page 495.

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doi: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2008.02.022

Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 52, Issue 5 , Page 492 , November 2008