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Chest Pain and Inflammation: A Story Where Hickam's Dictum Prevailed

      While Occam's razor refers to a single condition explaining a patient's clinical presentation, Hickam's dictum serves as the counterbalance to this phrase such that symptoms can be secondary to a variety of diagnoses. Here, we present a case of a patient whose presentation was due to the latter.
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