The Features and Significance of Hypertrophic Osteoarthropathy

摘要: Introduction Hypertrophic osteoarthropathy is usually accompanied by clubbed fingers and commonly arthralgia, bone pain, enlargement of the hands feet, thickening wrists ankles, gynecomastia. Although it relatively common, some physicians are not familiar with syndrome. Cases sometimes misdiagnosed as acromegaly, Paget's disease, or rheumatoid arthritis. Marie's 1 first case, described in 1890, was originally diagnosed acromegaly. The diagnosis hypertrophic osteoathropathy often made roentgenologist. x-ray appearance onionskin layers a thin line new along distal portions long bones characteristic. disease takes its name from seen later stages. In past years, an incidental finding cases pulmonary suppuration. review world literature up to 1915, Locke 2 collected 144 osteoarthropathy—108 which were