Costochondritis is not cancer, but its symptoms can resemble those of some types of cancer. It can also develop after certain ...

Rib fractures occur in more than 10% of all trauma patients. 1 -3 Mechanisms of injury range from high-impact chest wall trauma to low-energy ground-level falls in the elderly. Fractured ribs can be ...

Clinicians had attributed his worsening muscle weakness and diffuse pain to small-fiber neuropathy and chronic Lyme disease, ...

Dear Doctors: I was in a car accident, and an X-ray showed I had two broken ribs. A second X-ray taken a month later showed I also had a cracked rib. Why didn’t that show up the first time? Why isn’t ...