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SUMMARY
The present paper describes 56 cases of a pathological picture, here
referred to as mb. disci columnae thoracalis. The major-ity of the patients
were between 35 and 55 years old. Approximately half of the patients
were admitted under the diagnosis of mb. cordis. In most cases the disease
set in gradually as a deep pain between the shoulder-blades. The greater
part of the patients had pain radiating to the thorax, most frequently to
the left half of the thorax. The most important objective findings were
pressure tenderness, hyperaesthesia, and scoliosis, and the most important
radiographic findings were narrowing of the discs and formation of
ostheophytes (see Fig. 1—8). The patients received physiotherapy.