Twelfth Rib Syndrome: A Forgotten Cause of Flank Pain

Abstract

Efficacy and safety profile of long-term nitrofurantoin in urinary infections: 18 years' experience.

Botulinum Toxin Treatment for Slipping Rib Syndrome

“…A variety of names have been given to pain syndromes involving the lower ribs, including rib-tip, 9 slipping rib, 13 twelfth rib, 12,14 Cyriax syndrome, 15 and clicking rib syndrome. 10 SRS is a very challenging diagnosis because it is actually a pure clinical finding and a diagnosis of exclusion.…”

Perineural Interventional Pain Management Techniques for Chronic Thoracic Pain Syndromes

“…ICNBs are extremely useful in the treatment of post-thoracotomy pain, cancer pain, rib fractures, pathologic process lesions of the liver and breast. It has also been used in postherpetic neuralgia, palliation of cancer pain, together with pain due to invasive tumors of the ribs and the chest and upper abdominal walls [21], slipping rib syndrome [32], twelfth rib syndrome [33], liver hemangioma, breast pain and chronic painful pleural effusion (Figure 1).…”

Vitamin D Deficiency as a Cause of Flank Pain

“…The urologists often overlook this syndrome, especially in the recent few decades where SNCT has almost replaced the thorough clinical examination of patients with flank pain. Confirmation of this diagnosis is accomplished by careful clinical examination, elicited by exactly reproducing the patient's pain on point compression over the tip of the involved rib, usually the 10 th , 11 th or the 12 th ribs [1]. The 'hooking manoeuvre' is an alternative simple clinical test that was first described in 1977 [2], in which the examining clinician places his or her hand underneath the lower costal margin and pulls anteriorly.…”