A rib abnormality mimicking pulmonary nodule: a pitfall in the plain chest x-ray

Submitted: May 24, 2016
Accepted: May 24, 2016
Published: June 22, 2016
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The ribs show a wide range of normal and pathologic radiographic appearences as well as congenital variations. Intrathoracic ribs are isolated and rare anomalies. They are usually super-numerary, more often right-sided, and involve the middle part of the thorax. We describe a case with intrathorasic rib abnormality mimicking a peripheral metastatic lung nodule in the plain chest x-ray and emphasize the use of coronal and sagittal reformatted images in thorasic imaging.  Utilisation of multiplanar reformatted images in chest computerised tomography increase diagnostic quality.

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Akturk, Yeliz, Serra Ozbal Günes, and Baki Hekimoglu. 2016. “A Rib Abnormality Mimicking Pulmonary Nodule: A Pitfall in the Plain Chest X-Ray”. Monaldi Archives for Chest Disease 81 (1-2). https://doi.org/10.4081/monaldi.2015.734.