Primary Hypertrophic Osteoarthropathy (Subscribe)  

# pulmonary
# malignancy (bronchogenic Ca, lymphoma, mets)
# abscess
# COPD / bronchiectasis
# pleural
# pleural fibroma (highest incidence of HOA, tho' rare itself)
# mesothelioma
# cardiac
# cyanotic congenital heart dz
# GI
# inflammatory dz (Crohn, UC)
# malabsorption (dysentery, lue, cirrhosis)

Covers both primary and secondary

"idiopathic, familial hypertrophic osteoarthropathy"
* boys at puberty
* blacks> whites
* familial
* periosteal reaction
o proximal phalanges, distal long bones of legs and forearms
o cortical thickening without medullary narrowing
* thick skin:...

Uses the search string allintitle: Primary hypertrophic osteoarthropathy with 80 returns (July 2007). Most of these sites are journal article abstracts and most of these are not from the orthopaedic literature (see PubMed search in this category)

Use Create Bibligraphy link or use the search string "Osteoarthropathy, Primary Hypertrophic"[MeSH] AND (jrid22024[All Fields] OR jrid2275[All Fields] OR jrid2208[All Fields] OR jrid32471[All Fields] OR jrid3046[All Fields] OR jrid1981[All Fields] OR jrid22800[All Fields] OR jrid22785[All Fields] OR jrid3221[All Fields] OR jrid6314[All Fields] OR jrid20148[All Fields] OR jrid3758[All Fields] OR jrid32378[All...

[Categories]

- OCOSH Classification: Bone Diseases: Primary Hypertrophic Osteoarthropathy