Spontaneous haemothorax caused by costal exostosis.
We report a case of spontaneous haemothorax in a 19 year old boy with an exostosis of the left second rib. It may have been caused by nontraumatic rupture of markedly dilated pleural vessels, as a result of long-standing friction between the exostosis and the pleura. This is the first report of spontaneous haemothorax, without penetrative injury to the pleura or the diaphragm, in a patient with hereditary multiple exostosis.
Uchida
K
K
Dept of Respirology, Inada-Noborito Hospital, Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan.
Kurihara
Y
Y
Sekiguchi
S
S
Doi
Y
Y
Matsuda
K
K
Miyanaga
M
M
Ikeda
Y
Y
D000328:Adult; D005097:Exostoses, Multiple Hereditary / Q000150:complications*; D006491:Hemothorax / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010994:Pleura / Q000098:blood supply; D011859:Radiography; D012272:Ribs / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D012422:Rupture, Spontaneous