title: Hypertrophic pulmonary osteoarthropathy in a child with thymic carcinoma: an unusual presentation in childhood.
abstract: We report here a case of intrathoracic undifferentiated carcinoma in the thymus with hypertrophic pulmonary osteoarthropathy in a 13-year-old girl. The association of the two conditions is very rare.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatric Oncology, Faculty of Medicine, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey.
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Ilhan
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kutluk
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Göğüş
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Besim
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Büyükpamukçu
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002294:Carcinoma, Squamous Cell / Q000150:complications*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008207:Lymphatic Metastasis; D008479:Mediastinal Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000556:secondary; D010005:Osteoarthropathy, Secondary Hypertrophic / Q000209:etiology*; D013953:Thymus Neoplasms / Q000150:complications*