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Diverticulitis in the sigmoid colon presenting with only lower anterior chest pain.

Masaki TagoRisa HirataYoshio HisataOie SatsukiTokushima YoshinoriHidetoshi AiharaMotoshi FujiwaraShu-Ichi Yamashita
Published in: Clinical case reports (2020)
An 80-year-old man who presented with only lower anterior chest pain was diagnosed as sigmoid colon diverticulitis. His chest pain was considered to be referred pain from a disease at sigmoid colon, which should be suspected when other major causes of chest pain are excluded.
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