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Case Reports
. 1997 Mar;10(3):735-6.

Spontaneous haemothorax caused by costal exostosis

K Uchida  1 , Y Kurihara, S Sekiguchi, Y Doi, K Matsuda, M Miyanaga, Y Ikeda
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Case Reports

Spontaneous haemothorax caused by costal exostosis

K Uchida et al. Eur Respir J. 1997 Mar.
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Abstract

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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