Spontaneous hemothorax in hereditary multiple exostosis involving the ribs.
Exostosis occurs in the ribs either sporadically or as a manifestation of a genetic disorder known as hereditary multiple exostoses. Costal exostosis may cause chest pain and, on rare occasions, result in hemothorax. We report a case of hemothorax owing to costal exostosis in a 4-year-old boy.
Takata
Koremochi
K
Department of Radiology, University of Juntendo School of Medicine, 2-1-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8421, Japan. korechan@med.juntendo.ac.jp
Suzuki
Kazuhiro
K
Kurosaki
Yoshihisa
Y
D002675:Child, Preschool; D005097:Exostoses, Multiple Hereditary / Q000150:complications*; D006491:Hemothorax / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012272:Ribs; D013908:Thoracotomy; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed