Chest CT examinations in patients presenting with acute chest pain: a pictorial review.Acute chest pain (ACP) is one of the most common presenting symptoms at the emergency department.  To exclude life-threatening causes, radiologists encounter an increasing amount of thoracic computed tomography (CT) examinations including CT angiography of the heart and great vessels.  The dual- and triple-rule CT examinations are currently implemented in clinical practice.  We retrospectively identified chest CT examinations in the setting of acute chest pain in our hospitals and collected a variety of common and uncommon cases.  In this pictorial essay, we present the most educative cases from patients who presented with acute chest pain in the emergency department of our hospitals and for whom a thoracic CT was ordered.  Teaching Points • The number of chest CT examinations for ACP is increasing. • Chest CT examinations may help suggesting alternative diagnosis in ACP.
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To exclude life-threatening causes, radiologists encounter an increasing amount of thoracic computed tomography (CT) examinations including CT angiography of the heart and great vessels. 
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Chest CT examinations in patients presenting with acute chest pain: a pictorial review.Acute chest pain (ACP) is one of the most common presenting symptoms at the emergency department.  To exclude life-threatening causes, radiologists encounter an increasing amount of thoracic computed tomography (CT) examinations including CT angiography of the heart and great vessels.  The dual- and triple-rule CT examinations are currently implemented in clinical practice.  We retrospectively identified chest CT examinations in the setting of acute chest pain in our hospitals and collected a variety of common and uncommon cases.  In this pictorial essay, we present the most educative cases from patients who presented with acute chest pain in the emergency department of our hospitals and for whom a thoracic CT was ordered.  Teaching Points • The number of chest CT examinations for ACP is increasing. • Chest CT examinations may help suggesting alternative diagnosis in ACP.
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