A new sign of the slipping rib syndrome?

The slipping rib syndrome is characterized by burning pain in the lower thorax and upper abdomen, often disabling, caused by hypermobility of the costal cartilage with entrapment of the intercostal nerve. The syndrome is often underdiagnosed. The diagnosis is clinical and the definitive treatment is...

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Autores principales: Romano, Rosalia, Gavezzoli, Diego, Gallazzi, Maria Sole, Benvenuti, Mauro Roberto
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2021
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8766200/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34557920
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/icvts/ivab252
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author Romano, Rosalia
Gavezzoli, Diego
Gallazzi, Maria Sole
Benvenuti, Mauro Roberto
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description The slipping rib syndrome is characterized by burning pain in the lower thorax and upper abdomen, often disabling, caused by hypermobility of the costal cartilage with entrapment of the intercostal nerve. The syndrome is often underdiagnosed. The diagnosis is clinical and the definitive treatment is surgical, with an excellent result for pain relief. Based on the observation of 4 cases undergoing rib resection for SRS, we noticed a new possible sign of the disease. Our patients showed less thickness of the ipsilateral rectus abdominis muscle on ultrasound of the abdomen. The aim of this study is to demonstrate this sign in the diagnosis of SRS, to make this disease more recognizable and treatable.
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spelling pubmed-87662002022-01-19 A new sign of the slipping rib syndrome? Romano, Rosalia Gavezzoli, Diego Gallazzi, Maria Sole Benvenuti, Mauro Roberto Interact Cardiovasc Thorac Surg Case Reports The slipping rib syndrome is characterized by burning pain in the lower thorax and upper abdomen, often disabling, caused by hypermobility of the costal cartilage with entrapment of the intercostal nerve. The syndrome is often underdiagnosed. The diagnosis is clinical and the definitive treatment is surgical, with an excellent result for pain relief. Based on the observation of 4 cases undergoing rib resection for SRS, we noticed a new possible sign of the disease. Our patients showed less thickness of the ipsilateral rectus abdominis muscle on ultrasound of the abdomen. The aim of this study is to demonstrate this sign in the diagnosis of SRS, to make this disease more recognizable and treatable. Oxford University Press 2021-09-24 /pmc/articles/PMC8766200/ /pubmed/34557920 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/icvts/ivab252 Text en © The Author(s) 2021. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com
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