Clubbing and pachydermoperiostosis

A rare cause of digital clubbing: pachydermoperiostosis

A 35-year-old man of Tunisian origin complained of inflammatory arthralgia and he had noticed a progressive enlargement of his hands and feet as well as facial furrowing. On examination, he had thickening of the skin of the head and distal extremities and deep folds and furrows of the skin of the forehead (A), digital clubbing of fingers (B) and toes (C), spadelike enlargement of the hands and ...

[Pachydermoperiostosis (idiopathic hypertrophic osteoarthropathy)].

Introduction Pachydermoperiostosis is a syndrome characterized by finger clubbing, periosteal new bone formation especially over the distal ends of long bones, and coarsening of the facial features, with thickening, furrowing and oiliness of the skin of the face and forehead. The first reported cases were the Hagner brothers, who had typical features of this syndrome. They were first described ...

Pseudoacromegaly in pachydermoperiostosis.

To cite: Chakraborty PP, Bhattacharjee R, Mukhopadhyay S, et al. BMJ Case Rep Published online: [please include Day Month Year] doi:10.1136/bcr-2016214624 DESCRIPTION A 19-year-old male patient presented with a yearlong history of progressive painful enlargement of his hands and feet associated with excessive sweating and greasiness of the face, palms and soles. He also noticed pain over his wr...

Digital clubbing.

Finger clubbing

Examination for the presence of finger clubbing is an important skill for medical students and doctors. This article describes a comprehensive, concise and evidence-based approach for assessing for the presence of finger clubbing which is consistent with The Principles of Clinical Examination[1]. We describe the signs seen in finger clubbing and, based on a review of the literature, the precisi...