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How to treat a stabbing pain in sternum?
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Cardiac or not: First of course, rule out a cardiac cause. See your family doctor or cardiologist to have a thorough evaluation. If it is not cardiac, consider costochondritis (teitzes syndrome) which causes severe sternal and chest discomfort. Finally, a rare condition, sternalis syndrome may cause these symptoms.A ct scan of the chest should also rule out pulmonary or mediastinal pathology.
Answered 4/17/2014
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