Imaging of Thoracic Wall Abnormalities
- Author:
Alexandre SEMIONOV
1
;
John KOSIUK
;
Amr AJLAN
;
Federico DISCEPOLA
Author Information
- Publication Type:Case Report
- Keywords: Chest wall abnormalities
- MeSH: Anemia, Sickle Cell; Arthritis, Infectious; Cleidocranial Dysplasia; Diagnosis; Gardner Syndrome; Hyperparathyroidism; Klippel-Feil Syndrome; Marfan Syndrome; Neurofibromatosis 1; Osteopetrosis; Pentalogy of Cantrell; Poland Syndrome; Polychondritis, Relapsing; Retrospective Studies; Rickets; Scleroderma, Systemic; Spondylitis, Ankylosing; Sternoclavicular Joint; Thalassemia; Thoracic Wall; Tuberculosis
- From:Korean Journal of Radiology 2019;20(10):1441-1453
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:English
- Abstract: Identification of certain abnormalities of the chest wall can be extremely helpful in correctly diagnosing a number of syndromic conditions and systemic diseases. Additionally, chest wall abnormalities may sometimes constitute diagnoses by themselves. In the present pictorial essay, we review a number of such conditions and provide illustrative cases that were retrospectively identified from our clinical imaging database. These include pentalogy of Cantrell, Klippel-Feil syndrome, cleidocranial dysplasia, Poland syndrome, osteopetrosis, neurofibromatosis type 1, Marfan syndrome, Gardner syndrome, systemic sclerosis, relapsing polychondritis, polymyositis/dermatomyositis, ankylosing spondylitis, hyperparathyroidism, rickets, sickle cell anemia, thalassemia, tuberculosis, septic arthritis of the sternoclavicular joint, elastofibroma dorsi, and sternal dehiscence.
