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Painful Chest Wall Swellings: Tietze Syndrome or Chest Wall Tumor?

DOI

20

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0

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2015

Year

Nesimi Günal, Gültekin Gülbahar, Bülent Koçer, Serdar Han, Mehmet Ali Eryazğan, Arzu Özsoy, Seniha Naldöken, Aslıhan Alhan, Tevfik Kaplan
The Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeon

Abstract

Primary chest wall tumors could mimic TS. Bone scintigraphy or CT is not specific enough to determine malignant and other benign disorders of costochondral junction. Therefore, clinicians should follow TS patients more closely, and in case of increasing size of swelling, early diagnostic biopsy should be considered.