title: Clubbing in human immunodeficiency virus infection.
abstract: We describe two patients who developed clubbing shortly after HIV seroconversion. None of them had the full syndrome of hypertropic osteoarthropathy. Other causes of clubbing are unlikely. We suggest that clubbing may belong to the spectrum of arthropathies associated with HIV infection.
authors.affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, University Hospital Maastricht, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Boonen
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Schrey
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Van der Linden
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005385:Fingers / Q000473:pathology; D006679:HIV Seropositivity / Q000150:complications*; D006225:Hand / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010005:Osteoarthropathy, Secondary Hypertrophic / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology; D014034:Toes / Q000473:pathology