A patient presenting painful chest wall swelling: Tietze syndrome

Author: Kohei Sawada ¹ ; Hiromi Ihoriya ¹ ; Taihei Yamada ¹ ; Tetsuya Yumoto ¹ ; Kohei Tsukahara ¹ ; Takaaki Osako ¹ ; Hiromichi Naito ¹ ; Atsunori Nakao ¹
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1. Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, 2-5-1 Shikata-cho, Kita-ku, Okayama-shi, Okayama, 700-8558, Japan
Publication Type:Journal Article
Keywords: chest wall swelling; Tietze syndrome
From: World Journal of Emergency Medicine 2019;10(2):122-124
CountryChina
Language:English
Abstract: Patients frequently visit the emergency room with acute chest pain. While some potentially life-threatening disorders may cause the pain, in approximately 80% of cases, the chest pain source is benign, and musculoskeletal chest pain accounts for nearly 20%– 50% of those cases.[1–6] Thus, pain caused by benign and pathological conditions of the chest wall encountered in the emergency department is sometimes incorrectly attributed to angina pectoris or pleuritic and other serious cardiopulmonary diseases.