Spontaneous haemothorax caused by costal exostosis.
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We report a case of spontaneous haemothorax in a 19 year old boy with an exostosis of the left second rib. It may have been caused by nontraumatic rupture of markedly dilated pleural vessels, as a result of long-standing friction between the exostosis and the pleura. This is the first report of spontaneous haemothorax, without penetrative injury to the pleura or the diaphragm, in a patient with hereditary multiple exostosis.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- The European respiratory journal
دوره 10 3 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1997