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How are costochondritis and crohn's disease different?
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Inflammationlocation: Costochondiritis is inflammation of the cartilage between your ribs and sternum (bone in the middle of your chest) and crohn's disease is inflammation of your large intestine.
Answered 4/18/2013
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