2024, Number 1
Tietze´s syndrome as a rare entity and benign chest pain cause
Pérez LGPP, Vadillo SA, Avila PMD, Gómez PMG
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10.35366/114597
Language: Spanish
References: 5
Page: 62-64
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ABSTRACT
Tietze's syndrome refers to an inflammatory, non-suppurative, process of the cartilage of the sternocostal junction, costochondral or sternoclavicular joints, predominantly unilateral, affecting the second or third costal arches, and is an exclusion diagnosis. It is mainly characterized by chest pain of variable intensity. The technological advances in the area of imaging have made it possible to objectify the changes typical of osteochondritis, given by this entity, thus preventing the use of invasive measures and providing an accurate diagnosis to the patient when the rest of the tests for the study of precordial pain are negative. In this article we present the case of a patient with precordial pain of unknown origin. The importance of this case lies in disclosing the magnetic resonance findings that support this diagnosis. In the Department of Magnetic Resonance at Hospital Angeles Pedregal this is the second identified case with this diagnosis; being, the previous case, that of a woman of the same group of age with inflammatory changes in the sternoclavicular left joint. To this date it's incidence and prevalence are unknown.REFERENCES