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Everett C. Perlman, MD
Minneapolis

JAMA. 1984;251(18):2347.

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To the Editor.—

A man in his late 60s awakened with severe headache and chest pain. He saw his physician, and an ECG was done, which was read as normal. The physician then asked him to take off his shirt to listen to his chest. To the physician's amazement, there was a nitroglycerin disk stuck onto his side. The patient's wife has angina and uses the disk, which apparently had come loose and dropped into the bed, where it became attached to her husband's abdomen, giving him the aforementioned symptoms. . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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