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Perichondritis is usually incited by blunt trauma to the external ear. It presents with marked ear tenderness and overlying soft tissue swelling.
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Costochondritis pain is often mistaken for heart attack pain. The pain of a heart attack is often more widespread, while costochondritis pain is focused on a small area.
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Costochondritis
What is costochondritis?
Costochondritis is inflammation of the joint between a rib and the breastbone (sternum) or between the bony part of the rib and the rib cartilage.
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Costochondritis: Costochondritis is inflammation of the cartilage of the chest wall, usually involving that which surrounds the breast bone (sternum). It causes local pain and tenderness of the chest around the sternum.
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Costochondritis is an inflammation of a rib or the cartilage connecting a rib. This is a common cause of chest-wall pain. Inflammation or injury involving the chest muscles is another common cause of chest-wall pain. See chest pain.
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Relapsing polychondritis
Definition
Relapsing polychondritis is a disease characterized by autoimmune-like episodic or progressive inflammation of cartilage and other connective tissue, such as the nose, ears, throat, joints, kidneys, and heart.
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Polychondritis, also called relapsing polychondritis, is a rare disease in which cartilage in many areas of the body becomes inflamed. The disease most commonly affects the ears, nose and the airways of the lungs.
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Costochondritis is just a quick way of describing the symptoms of painful swollen rib cartilage. It occurs most often to the cartilage of the second and third ribs either on one or on both sides of the chest.
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Costochondritis: This is an inflammation of the cartilage between the ribs. Pain is typically located in the mid chest, with intermittently dull and sharp pain that may be increased with deep breaths, movement, and deep touch.
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pericentral scotoma; pericentric inversion; pericentrin; pericentriolar region; perichaeth; perichaetial; perichaetium; perichaetous; perichareia; pericholangitis; perichondral; perichondral bone; perichondrial; perichondrial cell; perichondritis; ...
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Aortic dissection may also be associated with other injury, infection, congenital (present from birth) weakness of the aorta, collagen disorders (such as Marfan's syndrome, pseudoxanthoma elasticum, Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, relapsing polychondritis, ...
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