The psychological burden of an initially unexplained illness: patients with sternocostoclavicular hyperostosis before and after delayed diagnosis

BACKGROUND: Sternocostoclavicular hyperostosis (SCCH) is a rare, debilitating, chronic inflammatory disorder of the anterior chest wall due to a chronic sterile osteomyelitis of unknown origin. SCCH is largely underdiagnosed and often misdiagnosed. In individual cases it can remain unrecognized for...

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Autores principales: van der Kloot, Willem A, Hamdy, Neveen AT, Hafkemeijer, Laurian CS, den Dulk, Femke MC, Chotkan, Sadhna A, van Emmerik, Arnold AP, Kaptein, Ad A
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2954978/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20828391
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7525-8-97

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2954978/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20828391
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7525-8-97

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