Digital clubbing in a patient with progressive mantle cell lymphoma.
Digital clubbing with or without hypertrophic osteoarthropathy may occur in a variety of neoplastic diseases. We present the first description of digital clubbing in a patient with progressive mantle cell lymphoma, in the absence of any other apparent etiology. We suggest that clubbing might be a paraneoplastic manifestation in mantle cell lymphoma. The literature on digital clubbing in hematological neoplasms is reviewed.
Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, Université catholique de Louvain, Department of Hematology, Brussels, Belgium.
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Louviaux
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Van Den Neste
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Scheiff
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Michaux
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Straetmans
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Ferrant
D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D018450:Disease Progression; D006801:Humans; D008228:Lymphoma, Non-Hodgkin / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010005:Osteoarthropathy, Secondary Hypertrophic / Q000209:etiology*