To the Editor: A 71-year-old man presented with a firm erythematous painful swelling over the sternoclavicular region. He had undergone coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) 18 months earlier.
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- 1 Department of Anaesthesia, Austin Hospital, Melbourne, VIC.
- 2 Department of Diagnostic and Molecular Pathology, Royal Cornwall Hospital, Truro, UK.
Correspondence: Laurence.Weinberg@austin.org.au
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