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What can cause sore lower right ribs without trauma being the cause? all blood tests are normal.

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?pleuritis: infections--sometimes viral of the covering of the lungs--pleura--can cause pain.viral infections of the junction of bone and cartilage of the ribs can cause pain too--costochondritis

Answered 8/21/2014

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