Chest Wall Pain Differential Diagnoses
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- Costochondritis
- Lower rib pain syndromes (e.g slipping rib syndrome)
- Pain from thoracic spine/costovertebral joints
- Sternalis syndrome
- Stress fractures
- Tietze’s syndrome
- Xiphoidalgia
- Spontaneous sternoclavicular subluxation
- Rheumatic diseases
- Fibromyalgia
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Axial spondyloarthritis (including ankylosing spondylitis)
- Psoriatic arthritis
- Sternoclavicular hyperostosis
- Systemic lupus erythematosus
- Septic arthritis of the chest wall
- Relapsing polychondritis
- Non-rheumatic systemic causes
- Osteoporotic fracture
- Neoplasms
- Pathological fracture
- Bone pain
- Sickle cell disease (rare)
