title: A rib abnormality mimicking pulmonary nodule: a pitfall in the plain chest x-ray.
abstract: The ribs show a wide range of normal and pathologic radiographic appearences as well as congenital variations. Intrathoracic ribs are isolated and rare anomalies. They are usually super-numerary, more often right-sided, and involve the middle part of the thorax. We describe a case with intrathorasic rib abnormality mimicking a peripheral metastatic lung nodule in the plain chest x-ray and emphasize the use of coronal and sagittal reformatted images in thorasic imaging. Utilisation of multiplanar reformatted images in chest computerised tomography increase diagnostic quality.
authors.affiliation: Diskapi Yildirim Beyazit Training and Research Hospital. yelizakturk@yahoo.com.
authors.forename: Yeliz
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Akturk
authors.forename: Serra Ozbal
authors.initials: SO
authors.lastname: Günes
authors.forename: Baki
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Hekimoglu
mesh_terms: D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D013902:Radiography, Thoracic; D012272:Ribs / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D003074:Solitary Pulmonary Nodule / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*