Heartburn may cause a burning sensation behind the breast. While this is noncardiac chest pain, the pain may sometimes be too much to bear that people would feel the need to vomit food. Some people also experience nausea, cough, and a bitter taste in the mouth. Heartburn can also cause ...
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Like costochondritis, Tietze syndrome is an inflammatory condition that causes pain in the junction between the ribs and the cartilage. The pain may come on suddenly or gradually. The pain may spread to the arms or shoulders and tends to get worse with sneezing, coughing, or physical activity....
Case presentation : 66-year-old male patient presenting chest pain, dry cough and occasional dyspnea, diagnosed with sternal chondrosarcoma and treated with en bloc resection of the tumor mass. Conclusion: A primary chondrosarcoma of the sternum was treated with resection of the anterior costal ...
Fibromyalgia can cause the cartilage connecting the sternum to the ribs to become inflamed. This is the reason for all the pain with sudden movements and persistent tenderness. My doctor told me that the pain should disappear in a few months. She told me I could take ibuprofen when it was ...
However, patients with bone metastasis from an occult primary breast cancer are a rare subset of patients, especially those with sternum metastasis [5]. Here, we present the case of a 38-year-old woman who had sternum pain for 4 months. The patient also had an occasional cough. Physical ...
Tietze sufferers may experience pain that spreads from the chest to the limbs. Many reports suggest that Tietze pain is first noticed with the onset of a small lump in the upper sternum. The node has been reported to fade and resurface but is generally not surgically removed. In some cases...
•In mostinsectsthe 1st abdominalsegment, and more especially itssternum, is reduced orvestigial.•Carrefourfaltered, doubling over as thebulletcaught him just below thesternum.•There is acharacteristicpain from thesternumto the back with thecatarrhand thecough.•You see that tiny spot on ...