title: Unusual cause of pleuritic chest pain in a child.
abstract: We present the case of a 5-year-old boy with hereditary multiple exostoses who presented with left-sided pleuritic chest pain. A CT scan of the chest revealed an intrathoracic exostosis in close association with the heart.
authors.affiliation: University of Leicester Medical School, Leicester, UK.
authors.forename: Georgina
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Yan
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Peterborough and Stamford Hospitals, Peterborough, UK.
authors.forename: Alastair
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Littlewood
authors.affiliation: Department of Orthopaedics, Peterborough and Stamford Hospitals, Peterborough, UK.|Department of Orthopaedics, Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge, UK.
authors.forename: Mark David
authors.identifier: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1515-1392
authors.initials: MD
authors.lastname: Latimer
mesh_terms: D002637:Chest Pain / Q000209:etiology*; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005097:Exostoses, Multiple Hereditary / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male