Cardiac Causalgia
Abstract
Abstract To the Editor. —In the May issue (Arch Intern Med125:809, 1970) Drs. Burch and Giles add "Cardiac Causalgia" to a long list of syndromes, such as the anterior chest, pectoral, rib, and Tietze's, to describe nonanginal chest pains. The authors have apparently attempted to combine at least three distinct entities—psychogenic pain, the post-infarction syndrome, and the shoulder-hand syndrome—into a single symptom complex. They then divide this into major...