title: Decompression illness presenting as breast pain.
abstract: We present two cases of decompression illness in women in whom the initial symptom causing distress after completion of the dives was breast pain. Both women were also subsequently found to have a patent foramen ovale. We postulate that breast pain may be an unusual under-recognized manifestation of decompression illness.
authors.affiliation: Stromness Surgery, John Street, Stromness, Orkney, Scotland, UK KW16 3AD.
authors.forename: A J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Trevett
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Sheehan
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Forbes
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001941:Breast Diseases / Q000209:etiology* / Q000628:therapy; D003664:Decompression; D003665:Decompression Sickness / Q000150:complications* / Q000628:therapy; D005076:Exanthema / Q000209:etiology; D005260:Female; D006344:Heart Septal Defects, Atrial / Q000150:complications; D006801:Humans; D010146:Pain / Q000209:etiology*; D059408:Pain Management