Note from Health Lover, Ilena Rosenthal:
http://breastimplantawareness.blogspot.com
We are very glad to see such Studies being published ... this one
in a Clinical Nuclear Medicine in a journal. Implant complications are
many, and those who believe the industry mantra that breast implants
are a 'safe' device ... need to look further at the very real
problems.

I believe that the trauma of breast implants in a woman's body ...
with infections, ruptures, re-surgeries, can and often do cause
various injuries and illnesses. Looking a bit further ... I found a
study from 1998 (see below) with many cases. This sounds very familiar
in the implanted community.
www.BreastImplantAwareness.org/

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http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/costochondritis/DS00626

Introduction

Costochondritis is an inflammation of the cartilage that connects a
rib to the breastbone (sternum). It causes sharp pain in the
costosternal joint — where your ribs and breastbone are joined by
rubbery cartilage. Pain caused by costochondritis may mimic that of a
heart attack or other heart conditions.

Your doctor might refer to costochondritis by other names, including
chest wall pain, costosternal syndrome and costosternal chondrodynia.
When the pain of costochondritis is accompanied by swelling, it's
referred to as Tietze syndrome.

Most cases of costochondritis have no apparent cause. In these cases,
treatment focuses on easing your pain while you wait for
costochondritis to resolve on its own.

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Clin Nucl Med. 2008 May;33(5):330-332.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18431146?dopt=AbstractPlus
   Costosternal Chondrodynia Simulating Recurrent Breast Cancer
Unveiled by FDG PET.
   Mathew AS, El-Haddad G, Lilien DL, Takalkar AM.

   From the *PET Imaging Center, Biomedical Research Foundation of
Northwest Louisiana; and †Department of Radiology, Louisiana State
University Health Sciences Center, Shreveport, Louisiana.

   FDG-PET imaging, which is routinely used to assess recurrent
breast cancer, is nonspecific for malignancies and can detect several
inflammatory lesions. Costochondritis following breast reconstructive
surgery, presenting with excruciating chest pain or "chondrodynia," is
a rare variant of Tietze's syndrome thought to occur due to traction
exerted by large breast implants. Diagnosis is usually clinical
because no abnormalities are identified on conventional imaging. Two
cases have been reported in the literature, but none with FDG-PET. We
report a patient with treated breast cancer, presenting with chest
pain where FDG-PET to assess for recurrence was consistent with
costochondritis and peri-implant inflammation.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9852176?ordinalpos=1&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEnt
rez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_DiscoveryPanel.Pubmed_Discovery_RA&linkpos
=1

   A variant of Tietze's syndrome occurring after reconstructive
breast surgery.
   van Schalkwyk AJ, van Wingerden JJ.

   Costosternal chondrodynia (Tietze's syndrome variant) should be
considered in those rare patients who present with severe breast pain
several months after reconstructive breast surgery. The authors
treated 25 cases, 3 of which are discussed in detail, where the origin
of the pain was traced to the costosternal cartilages. The
differential diagnosis and management of this hitherto undescribed
problem after breast surgery are discussed.