Reprint requests to Wladimir Koren, MD, Department of Emergencyy Medicine, The Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel-Hashomer 52621, Israel.
Reprint requests to Wladimir Koren, MD, Department of Emergencyy Medicine, The Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel-Hashomer 52621, Israel.
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Abstract
A 52-year-old hypertensive woman is described in whom a clinically evident diagnosis of xiphodynia, the painful xiphoid process, complicated the diagnosis of impending myocardial infarction. The authors suggest that xiphodynia be considered a second-line assumption after more dangerous conditions have been thoroughly ruled out.
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