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Cough fracture

Aka: Cough fracture, Rib Fracture due to Cough

See Also
1. Chest Pain Approach
Pathophysiology
1. Fatigue Fracture of lower ribs from repeated coughing
Symptoms
1. Pleuritic Chest Pain
  1. Accentuated by respiratory movements
Signs
1. Apply pressure on remote segment of the rib
  1. Causes Fracture site pain
Differential Diagnosis
1. Costochondritis
Radiology: Rib XRay or Chest XRay
1. Often normal despite Fracture

Cough fracture of ribs (C0567413)
Concepts	Injury or Poisoning (T037)
SnomedCT	208107003, 208136003
Spanish	Cough fracture of ribs, fractura de costillas por tos (trastorno), fractura de costillas por tos
English	Cough fracture, Cough fracture of ribs, Cough fracture of ribs (disorder)
Sources	Derived from the NIH UMLS (Unified Medical Language System)

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This page was written by Scott Moses, MD, last revised on 1/6/2012 and last published on 2/5/2012.

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