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A 50-year-old man presented with a non-traumatic painful swelling over the medial clavicle. Radiographs showed a poorly defined fracture and the possibility of an underlying pathology was raised. Computed tomography suggested a stress fracture. This prompted a further, more detailed occupational history to be obtained from the patient, which revealed a hitherto undescribed cause of clavicular stress fracture and obviated the need for further imaging or biopsy.
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Received: 27 December 1999 Revision requested: 17 January 2000 Revision received: 24 February 2000 Accepted: 29 February 2000
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Peebles, C., Sulkin, T. & Sampson, M. ’Cable-maker’s clavicle’: stress fracture of the medial clavicle. Skeletal Radiol 29, 421–423 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/s002560000224
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s002560000224