title: [Imaging of osteoarticular diseases of the anterior chest wall].
abstract: The purpose of this paper is to present a pictorial display of osseous and articular lesions of the anterior chest wall. The role of CT and MR imaging in such disorders is emphasized. Imaging of the anterior thoracic wall by plain films is particularly difficult. However numerous disorders may be encountered. They include inflammatory hyperostosis and sclerosis of the clavicle and the sternum, condensing osteitis and post-traumatic osteolysis of the clavicle, radiation osteitis of the sternum and the ribs, septic arthritis of the sternoclavicular joint, primary and secondary tumors of the sternum and the ribs. We illustrate a spectrum of such lesions in which CT and MR imaging provides acute evaluation of both soft tissue and bone details.
authors.affiliation: Service de Radiologie Centrale, Hopital Central CHU Nancy.
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Grignon
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Jan
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bresson
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Prost-Rio
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Walter
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Rubini
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Roland
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Gaucher
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Régent
mesh_terms: D002968:Clavicle; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D012272:Ribs; D013249:Sternum; D013896:Thoracic Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed