A case of small cell carcinoma of the lung associated with hypertrophic pulmonary osteoarthropathy.
A 73-year-old man had complained of painful swelling in the upper and lower extremities for several months before detection of small cell lung carcinoma. A bone scan showed abnormal symmetrical accumulations in the extremities, but periosteal proliferation was not demonstrated by X-ray. When a complete remission was obtained by chemoradiotherapy, the joint manifestation also subsided completely. In almost all reported cases, hypertrophic pulmonary osteoarthropathy was observed in all patients with non-small cell lung carcinoma. To our knowledge, this is the first case report of hypertrophic pulmonary osteoarthropathy associated with small cell lung carcinoma published in the English literature.
Fujishita
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First Department of Internal Medicine, Toyama Medical and Pharmaceutical University, Japan.
Mizushima
Y
Y
Yoshida
Y
Y
Kitagawa
M
M
Kobayashi
M
M
D000368:Aged; D018288:Carcinoma, Small Cell / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000150:complications*; D008297:Male; D010005:Osteoarthropathy, Secondary Hypertrophic / Q000150:complications* / Q000209:etiology