Xiphodynia Caused by a Large Xiphoid Process

We present the case of a 72-year-old man with a three-month history of epigastric pain. A physical examination revealed a tender, hard mass around the epigastric area. Enhanced CT showed no chest or abdominal abnormalities, except for a large xiphoid process. The diagnosis was xiphodynia caused by a...

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Autores principales: Tsuchida, Tomoya, Ishizuka, Kosuke, Ohira, Yoshiyuki
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2023
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Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10544598/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37790055
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.44516
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author Tsuchida, Tomoya
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description We present the case of a 72-year-old man with a three-month history of epigastric pain. A physical examination revealed a tender, hard mass around the epigastric area. Enhanced CT showed no chest or abdominal abnormalities, except for a large xiphoid process. The diagnosis was xiphodynia caused by a large xiphoid process. Xyphoidynia should be considered a differential diagnosis for epigastric pain.
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spelling pubmed-105445982023-10-03 Xiphodynia Caused by a Large Xiphoid Process Tsuchida, Tomoya Ishizuka, Kosuke Ohira, Yoshiyuki Cureus Internal Medicine We present the case of a 72-year-old man with a three-month history of epigastric pain. A physical examination revealed a tender, hard mass around the epigastric area. Enhanced CT showed no chest or abdominal abnormalities, except for a large xiphoid process. The diagnosis was xiphodynia caused by a large xiphoid process. Xyphoidynia should be considered a differential diagnosis for epigastric pain. Cureus 2023-09-01 /pmc/articles/PMC10544598/ /pubmed/37790055 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.44516 Text en Copyright © 2023, Tsuchida et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Tsuchida, Tomoya
Ishizuka, Kosuke
Ohira, Yoshiyuki
Xiphodynia Caused by a Large Xiphoid Process
title Xiphodynia Caused by a Large Xiphoid Process
title_full Xiphodynia Caused by a Large Xiphoid Process
title_fullStr Xiphodynia Caused by a Large Xiphoid Process
title_full_unstemmed Xiphodynia Caused by a Large Xiphoid Process
title_short Xiphodynia Caused by a Large Xiphoid Process
title_sort xiphodynia caused by a large xiphoid process
topic Internal Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10544598/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37790055
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.44516
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