title: Injury to the developing sternum in an adolescent football player: a case report and literature review.
abstract: When a blow to the sternum causes pain in a young athlete, the differential diagnosis can be complicated by persistence of an unfused growth center that does not normally fuse until age 18. We report a case of physeal injury in the sternum that was originally diagnosed as a stress fracture. The young football player in this case may have been predisposed to such an injury by abnormal synostosis of the sternomanubrial junction.
authors.affiliation: Minneapolis Sports Medicine Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. clars@med.unc.edu
authors.forename: Christopher M
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Larson
authors.forename: David A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Fischer
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D005538:Football / Q000293:injuries*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011859:Radiography; D013249:Sternum / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000293:injuries*