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What Causes A Bump On Inner Rib Cage After An Injury?

So I was her skiing with a friend and landed on my ribs gallon off and like I went to med express and got an X-ray and then said they couldn t find anything wrong and now like a month later I got this hard bump on my left lower inner rib cage like by my stomach could I get some ideas of what it could be?
Tue, 27 Jan 2015
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Thanks for your question on HCM.
In my opinion you should get done
1. Repeat chest x ray
2. Ultrasound examination of local part.
Since you are having blunt chest trauma, your hard lump can be due to healing process in the injured rib.
Ribs are bony structure. So any injury in ribs will cause healing by fibrosis and calcification. This causes callus formation at the site of injury. And this callus can be felt as hard lump.
So get done chest x ray and ultrasound examination to rule out other causes.
If needed biopsy of the lump can also be done to establish the diagnosis.
But callus formation due to healed ribs appears more in your case.
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What Causes A Bump On Inner Rib Cage After An Injury?

Thanks for your question on HCM. In my opinion you should get done 1. Repeat chest x ray 2. Ultrasound examination of local part. Since you are having blunt chest trauma, your hard lump can be due to healing process in the injured rib. Ribs are bony structure. So any injury in ribs will cause healing by fibrosis and calcification. This causes callus formation at the site of injury. And this callus can be felt as hard lump. So get done chest x ray and ultrasound examination to rule out other causes. If needed biopsy of the lump can also be done to establish the diagnosis. But callus formation due to healed ribs appears more in your case.