Pathology is a significant component of the causal study of pathogens and a major field in modern medicine and diagnosis. Hence, 'the study of paths', by which disease comes. The term pathology itself may be used broadly to refer to the study of disease in general, incorporating a wide range of bioscience research fields and medical practices, or more narrowly to describe work within the contemporary medical field of general pathology, which includes a number of distinct but inter-related medi
Costochondritis is inflammation of the junctions where the upper ribs join the cartilage that holds them to the breastbone (sternum). Costochondritis causes localized chest wall pain and tenderness that can be reproduced by pushing on the involved cartilage in the front of the rib cage.Costochondritis is a relatively harmless musculoskeletal chest pain and usually resolves without treatment.ostochondritis causes localized chest wall pain and tenderness that can be reproduced by pushing on the involved cartilage in the front of the rib cage. Costochondritis is a relatively harmless musculoskeletal chest pain and usually resolves without treatment.
1 Different types of pneumonia, an infection of your lungs, may temporarily cause atelectasis. 2  Pneumothorax. 3  Air leaks into the space between your lungs and chest wall, indirectly causing some or all of a lung to collapse. 4  Scarring of lung tissue.5  Scarring could be caused by injury, lung disease or surgery. Air leaks into the space between your lungs and chest wall, indirectly causing some or all of a lung to collapse. 2  Scarring of lung tissue. 3  Scarring could be caused by injury, lung disease or surgery. 4  In these rare cases, the atelectasis is minor compared with the damage to the lung tissue from the scarring.