A rare cause of digital clubbing: pachydermoperiostosis

Pan Afr Med J. 2016 Nov 25:25:194. doi: 10.11604/pamj.2016.25.194.10890. eCollection 2016.

Authors

Zeineb Alaya¹, Walid Osman²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Rheumatology, Farhat Hached Hospital, Faculty of Medicine of Sousse, Sousse, Tunisia.
² Department of Orthopaedics, Sahloul Hospital, Faculty of Medicine of Sousse, Sousse, Tunisia.

No abstract available

Keywords: Pachydermoperiostosis; digital clubbing; thickening of the skin.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Adult
Analgesics / therapeutic use
Anti-Inflammatory Agents, Non-Steroidal / therapeutic use
Diagnosis, Differential
Humans
Male
Osteoarthropathy, Primary Hypertrophic / diagnosis*
Osteoarthropathy, Primary Hypertrophic / diagnostic imaging
Osteoarthropathy, Primary Hypertrophic / drug therapy
Radiography

Substances

Analgesics
Anti-Inflammatory Agents, Non-Steroidal