[Diagnostic image (144) A man with clubbing of fingers. Hypertrophic osteoarthropathy (Pierre-Marie-Bamberger syndrome)].
A 59-year-old man presented with clubbing of fingers and toes, arthralgia and a tumour of the left lung. Pulmonary hypertrophic osteoarthropathy (Pierre-Marie-Bamberger syndrome) was diagnosed. After pneumonectomy of the left lung the clubbing disappeared.
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Gelre Ziekenhuizen, locatie Lukas, afd. Chirurgie, Postbus 9014, 7300 DS Apeldoorn. b.lamme@gelre.nl
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D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000601:surgery; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010005:Osteoarthropathy, Secondary Hypertrophic / Q000209:etiology*; D011013:Pneumonectomy