Chest pain and anxiety in an adolescent: an unusual etiology.
Chest pain in children is commonly caused by benign etiologies but may be caused by conditions that carry significant morbidity if not treated. Emergency medicine physicians must identify the patients that require further evaluation and treatment. We describe a case of a 13-year-old boy with 10 months of progressive chest pain that had been attributed to anxiety and was ultimately diagnosed as an esophageal duplication cyst requiring surgical repair.
From the Departments of *Division of Critical Care Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA; †Internal Medicine and Pediatrics, Rapid City Regional Hospital and Founders Park Clinic, Rapid City, SD; and ‡Emergency Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.
Katherine R
KR
Peeler
Jennifer
J
Hasvold
Margaret
M
Wolff
D000293:Adolescent; D001007:Anxiety / Q000209:etiology; D002637:Chest Pain / Q000209:etiology; D004934:Esophageal Cyst / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*; D004947:Esophagus / Q000002:abnormalities*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male