[Hypertrophic osteoarthropathy: a rare manifestation of an amygdalar tumour].
A case of hypertrophic osteoarthropathy in association with malignant tonsil tumour is reported. It involved a patient in whom the bone disorder was detected 10 months prior to the clinical manifestation of the tumour. Hypertrophic pneumic osteoarthropathy is a clinical and radiological syndrome characterized by proliferation of periosteum in long bones with digital clubbing. In over 90 % of the cases, it has been associated with an intra-thoracic tumour and more rarely secondary to a malignant haemopathy or ENT cancer, particularly of the rhinopharynx. As far as we know, the association with carcinoma of the tonsils has not previously been described.
Galindo Ortego
Javier
J
Servicio de Otorrinolaringología, Hospital Santa María.,Lleida, España. jgalindo@comll.es
Roselló
Lluís
L
García González
Begoña
B
Torres
Ramón
R
Melgarejo Moreno
P José
PJ
Ghani Martínez
Fares
F
Hernández Agelet
Antonio
A
D000679:Amygdala / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D000894:Anti-Inflammatory Agents, Non-Steroidal / Q000627:therapeutic use; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D019635:Neurosurgical Procedures; D010005:Osteoarthropathy, Secondary Hypertrophic / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy
D000894:Anti-Inflammatory Agents, Non-Steroidal