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- Title
Kosta Köprüleşmesi: Olgu Sunumu.
- Authors
Köroğlu, Fatma Tamara; Keskin, Ahmet; Argüder, Emine
- Abstract
Congenital rib anomalies usually cause no symptom and/or disease by itself. Being one of the birth defects, they have become important due to their tendency to accompany other diseases and to cause misinterpretation of chest radiographies. In our case report, a forty-nine year old female who has asthma was admitted to respiratory diseases outpatient clinic with complaints of shortness of breath and cough. Medical history was taken; examination, laboratory tests and imaging studies were performed and she was diagnosed as asthma attack triggered by lower respiratory tract infection. Proper medication was given to the patient. Bridging ribs between 2nd-3rd costae have been noticed on the chest radiography ordered regarding the patient's complaints. The bridging costae condition was determined to be unrelated with her current complaints. Considering this case report, we aimed to investigate how rib anomalies should be evaluated in the light of other case reports and scientific research
- Publication
Ankara Medical Journal, 2018, Vol 18, Issue 1, p149
- ISSN
2148-4570
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.17098/amj.409701