Online Clubbing and Digital Drag

Digital clubbing.

Quantitation of digital clubbing by shadowgram technique.

Finger clubbing was quantified from the magnified silhouette of the right index finger in controls and patients with clubbing, using a simple shadowgram technique. There was good correlation between clinical assessment and measurement of both the profile angle and the hyponychial angle. The hyponychial angle appeared to be a more accurate indicator of clubbing than the profile angle.

Progressive furrowing of skin with digital clubbing.

70 year old man with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and hypertension was admitted to hospital with a two month history of worsening dyspnoea on exertion and ankle swelling. On examination, the patient was in atrial fibrillation with an apical ventricular rate of 136 beats/min. The jugular venous pressure was not visible , but there was bilateral pitting oedema to the knees. Auscultation ...

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 ...

LATS activity, exophthalmos and digital clubbing associated with myxoedema.

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