Template:Chest Wall Pain DDX
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- Costochondritis
- Lower rib pain syndromes (slipping rib syndrome)
- Pain from thoracic spine
- costovertebral joints
- interspinous ligaments and paravertebral muscles
- possibly not costotransverse joints or facet joints
- Sternalis Syndrome
- Stress fractures
- Tietze’s Syndrome
- Xiphoidalgia
- Spontaneous sternoclavicular subluxation
- Rheumatic diseases
- Fibromyalgia
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Axial Spondyloarthritis (including ankylosing spondylitis)
- Psoriatic Arthritis
- Systemic lupus erythematosus
- Relapsing polychondritis
- Sternoclavicular hyperostosis
- Septic arthritis of the chest wall
- Non-rheumatic systemic causes
- Osteoporotic fracture
- Neoplasms
- Pathological fracture
- Bone pain
- Sickle cell disease (rare)
