Patients with high ribs, the following reasons are common: first, rickets: such as for adolescent patients, may be rickets, due to severe calcium deficiency, lack of vitamin D, can lead to rickets, can cause the rib cage to increase in height, the formation of local deformities. Second, lung disease: elderly patients suffering from severe chronic bronchitis, emphysema, pulmonary heart disease, can also cause increased intrathoracic pressure, resulting in localized rib elevation, while there will be coughing, sputum, chest pain and other clinical manifestations, through the lungs CT, MRI, will be found in bronchial tubes and lungs within the obvious lesions. Third, fracture deformity healing: after the fracture of the rib, if it is not fixed in time, it will cause local deformity healing, and it can also lead to the phenomenon of localized rib heightening, and X-ray filming will find that the fracture deformity changes. Ribs become high to timely diagnosis, timely treatment, in order to make the clinical symptoms have been significantly relieved, some patients are not easy to treat, such as rib fracture deformity, usually need to consider surgical treatment, the damage is greater.