Chest
Volume 91, Issue 4, April 1987, Pages 605-607
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CASE 1

A 38-year old black man with a history of marked alcohol abuse presented with complaints of epigastric pain, lower substemal pain, and generalized weakness and vomiting for a few days before admission. The patient had been drinking heavily until two days before admission when he stopped because of vomiting. He had a history of hypertension and was being treated with hydrochlorthiazide. Physical examination revealed vague epigastric tenderness and a mild tremor of the extremities. There was no

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