title: [A smoker with progressive knee complaints].
abstract: A 70-year-old smoker was referred for X-rays of both painful knees. Both femora showed signs of hypertrophic osteoarthropathy. Chest radiography demonstrated a tumour in the upper lobe of the right lung. The patient was diagnosed with hypertrophic pulmonary osteoarthropathy (Marie-Bamberger syndrome).
authors: Diakonessenhuis, Afd. Radiologie, Utrecht, the Netherlands. velthuissimone@gmail.com
authors: Simone
authors: S
authors: Velthuis
authors: Teun
authors: T
authors: Weits
authors: Marcel Th M
authors: MT
authors: van Rens
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D006801:Humans; D007717:Knee / Q000473:pathology; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis*; D008297:Male; D010005:Osteoarthropathy, Secondary Hypertrophic / Q000175:diagnosis*; D013902:Radiography, Thoracic; D012907:Smoking / Q000009:adverse effects