Chest wall pain

Introduction Chest wall pain (chestwallpain) is also known as musculoskeletalpain. The place of pain is only concentrated, and the patient can clearly point it out. The pain is not long, and usually only lasts for one or two seconds, and there is a chance to relapse. When the patient takes a deep breath, coughs, sneezes or turns around, the chest is stinging and even painful. Pain may be more intense than chest pain caused by other diseases, but most of them improve within a few days to two or three weeks. It will develop at any age. The pain symptoms of this disease gradually reduce or disappear within 3 to 4 weeks. In some cases, the symptoms are light and heavy, repeated attacks, and may be delayed for several months or years.

Cause

Cause

The patient has sprained cartilage between the ribs and inflammation, that is, costochondritis, which is one of the more common chest wall pain diseases.

Inflammation caused by viruses such as influenza, this is Tietze'ssyndrome. (The flu itself can also cause bone pain.)

The rarer one is the rib fracture, but it is also the most painful.

an examination

Related inspection

Chest MRI

Clinical manifestations:

1. The place of pain is only concentrated, and the patient can clearly point it out.

2, the pain is not long, usually only one or two seconds each time, there is a chance to relapse.

3. When the patient takes a deep breath, coughs, sneezes or turns around, the chest is stinging and even painful.

4, the pain may be more intense than the chest pain caused by other diseases, but most of them improved within a few days to two, Samsung.

5, will be affected at any age.

Differential diagnosis

Differential diagnosis of chest wall pain:

1. Thoracic vertebrae pain: Thoracic vertebrae pain is the main clinical manifestation of the symptoms of thoracic spondylosis. Common thoracic vertebrae hyperplasia and spinal stenosis are common. Compression fractures, dislocations, scoliosis, and fascia incarceration of the thoracic spine. And thoracic disc herniation.

2, persistent chest pain or blurred back pain: patients with ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament of the thoracic spine, complaining of persistent back pain, its history can last from several months to several years. All 12 patients treated with anterior surgery reported by Kenji Hannai complained of persistent chest pain or blurred back pain. The posterior longitudinal ligament ossification of the thoracic spine (OPLL) is not a common disease worldwide, but it is not uncommon in some countries in the Far East to ossify the posterior longitudinal ligament, resulting in paralysis of the limbs and hospital visits.

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