title: Role of immune complexes in hypertrophic osteoarthropathy and nonmetastatic polyarthritis.
abstract: Three case histories of patients with histologically proved malignant disease and an associated nonmetastatic symmetrical polyarthropathy are analysed. No evidence of a pathogenetic role for immune complexes was found in hypertrophic osteoarthropathy, whereas there is considerable evidence suggesting that the nonmetastatic polyarthritis associated with malignant lymphoma is an immune complex phenomenon.
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000936:Antigen-Antibody Complex / Q000032:analysis*; D001168:Arthritis / Q000209:etiology / Q000276:immunology*; D006801:Humans; D008223:Lymphoma / Q000150:complications; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000150:complications; D010005:Osteoarthropathy, Secondary Hypertrophic / Q000209:etiology / Q000276:immunology*
chemical_list: D000936:Antigen-Antibody Complex