A 29-Year-Old Man With an Osteolytic Rib Lesion

Marie Berleur; Elisa Chapuis; Marie Pierre Debray; Quentin Pellenc; Muriel Hourseau; Thomas Papo; Karim Sacré

doi:10.1016/j.chest.2020.09.089

A 29-Year-Old Man With an Osteolytic Rib Lesion

Chest. 2021 Feb;159(2):e115-e117. doi: 10.1016/j.chest.2020.09.089.

Authors

Marie Berleur¹, Elisa Chapuis¹, Marie Pierre Debray², Quentin Pellenc³, Muriel Hourseau⁴, Thomas Papo¹, Karim Sacré⁵

Affiliations

¹ Department of Médecine Interne, Université de Paris, Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris, Hôpital Bichat-Claude Bernard, Paris, France.
² Department of Radiologie, Université de Paris, Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris, Hôpital Bichat-Claude Bernard, Paris, France.
³ Department of Chirurgie Vasculaire et Thoracique, Université de Paris, Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris, Hôpital Bichat-Claude Bernard, Paris, France.
⁴ Department of Pathologie, Université de Paris, Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris, Hôpital Bichat-Claude Bernard, Paris, France.
⁵ Department of Médecine Interne, Université de Paris, Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris, Hôpital Bichat-Claude Bernard, Paris, France. Electronic address: karim.sacre@aphp.fr.

PMID: 33563453
DOI: 10.1016/j.chest.2020.09.089

Abstract

A 29-year-old man with no significant medical history presented to the ED with a 4-week history of chest pain. The pain was insidious, located on the right side of the chest, increased by deep breathing, and incompletely alleviated by acetaminophen. The patient had never smoked tobacco. He denied any recent fevers, chills, dyspnea, cough, night sweats, hemoptysis, or history of trauma but had lost at least 8 kg in the past 6 months. The patient was from Morocco and had lived in France for 1 year.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Adult
Antitubercular Agents / therapeutic use*
Diagnosis, Differential
Drug Therapy, Combination
Humans
Male
Ribs*
Tuberculosis, Osteoarticular / diagnosis*
Tuberculosis, Osteoarticular / drug therapy*

Substances

Antitubercular Agents