title: [A healthy young man with lost ribs].
abstract: A 19-year-old man received a routine medical exam, he had no medical history. A defect on the left thoracic wall was noted and an X-ray and CT-scan of the thorax showed osteolysis of the 3rd and 4th rib. Histopathology of surgical biopsies revealed non-malignant vascular proliferation consistent with Gorham's disease.
authors.affiliation: Erasmus Medisch Centrum, afd. Heelkunde, Rotterdam, the Netherlands. mdunkelgrun@ysl.nl
authors.forename: Martin
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Dunkelgrun
authors.forename: Albertus N
authors.initials: AN
authors.lastname: van Geel
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010015:Osteolysis, Essential / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D011859:Radiography; D055815:Young Adult