Abstract | HISTORY AND CLINICAL FINDINGS: During chemotherapy for a non-small-cell bronchial carcinoma with metastasis to the right femur (previously locally excised), a 34-year-old man suddenly developed severe, lasting joint pain in the ankle, knee, elbow and wrist without signs of increased warmth or swelling of these joints. At the time of diagnosis clubbed fingers had been noted. INVESTIGATIONS: Radiography of the hands showed bilateral periosteal hyperostoses. Computed tomography of the thorax revealed tumor progression. DIAGNOSIS, TREATMENT AND COURSE: CONCLUSIONS: Only 10% of non-small-cell bronchial carcinomas are associated with HPO. Conversely, such a tumor is found in 90% of HPO of recent onset and should therefore be sought of when searching for the primary tumor. The signs of HPO are reversible if the underlying disease is adequately treated.
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Authors | T Fietz, P Schneider, W U Knauf, E Thiel |
Journal | Deutsche medizinische Wochenschrift (1946)
(Dtsch Med Wochenschr)
Vol. 123
Issue 50
Pg. 1507-11
(Dec 11 1998)
ISSN: 0012-0472 [Print] Germany |
Vernacular Title | Trommelschlegelfinger und Arthralgien als reversibles paraneoplastisches Syndrom (Pierre-Marie-Bamberger-Syndrom) beim nicht-kleinzelligen Bronchialkarzinom. |
PMID | 9879279
(Publication Type: Case Reports, English Abstract, Journal Article)
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Topics |
- Adult
- Arthralgia
- Carcinoma, Bronchogenic
(complications, secondary, surgery)
- Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung
(complications, secondary, surgery)
- Femoral Neoplasms
(secondary, surgery)
- Humans
- Lung Neoplasms
(complications, pathology, surgery)
- Male
- Osteoarthropathy, Secondary Hypertrophic
(etiology)
- Paraneoplastic Syndromes
(etiology)
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