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Unusual presentation of rib exostosis
Waseem M Hajjar1, Yasser M El-Medany, Mohamed A Essa
1Department of Surgery, Division of Thoracic Surgery, King Khalid University Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|February 28, 2003
Abstract:
We report two cases of unusual presentation of rib exostosis. The first patient presented acutely with hemorrhagic shock due to massive hemothorax, and the second patient presented with repetitive chest infection complicated by empyema. In both patients, preoperative computed tomographic (CT) scan of the chest revealed rib exostoses, necessitating thoracotomy and rib resection.