title: [A man with acute pain of the left side of the chest].
abstract: A 42-year-old man came to the emergency department because of acute pain on the left side of the chest. Physical examination, ECG and blood tests revealed no abnormalities. With a CT scan of the thorax we made the diagnosis: 'pericardial fat necrosis'. This is a very rare, self-limiting disease.
authors.affiliation: Maasstad Ziekenhuis, afd. Radiologie, Rotterdam.
authors.forename: Julie L E
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Tutein Nolthenius
authors.forename: Jan-Hein
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Hensen
authors.forename: R A André
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Niezen
mesh_terms: D059787:Acute Pain / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology; D000328:Adult; D002637:Chest Pain / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology; D004562:Electrocardiography; D005218:Fat Necrosis / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010496:Pericardium / Q000473:pathology*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed