title: [Digital ulcers revealing lung carcinoma].
abstract: Digital ulcers usually reflect focal ischemia due to a microangiopathy, its causes are diverse. In women, it first suggests a connective tissue disease whereas in men, a diffuse arteriopathy. Acral ischemia till necrosis is a rare form of a paraneoplasia. We report about a man with a metastatic lung cancer revealed by digital ulcers. In front of digital necrosis, haemopathy or cancer must be searched in the absence of iatrogenic cause, occupational diseases, atherosclerosis or systemic disease.
authors.affiliation: Service de pneumologie, hôpital militaire Avicenne, boulevard La Résistance, 40000 Marrakech, Maroc. bouchentouf_rachid@yahoo.fr
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Bouchentouf
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Benjelloun
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Aitbenasser
mesh_terms: D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000556:secondary; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000556:secondary; D005385:Fingers / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009336:Necrosis / Q000209:etiology; D010257:Paraneoplastic Syndromes / Q000175:diagnosis*; D012883:Skin Ulcer / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology; D012907:Smoking / Q000009:adverse effects