Complete form of pachydermoperiostosis: a case report

Dermatol Online J. 2013 Feb 15;19(2):10.

Abstract

Pachydermoperiostosis is a primary form of hypertrophic osteoarthropathy, which presents with pachydermia, digital clubbing, and radiologic periostosis. Pachydermoperiostosis occurs owing to mutations of the gene encoding for 15-hydroxyprostaglandin dehydrogenase (15HPGD). Clinical manifestations of PDP are thought to relate to excessive collagen formation and dysregulation of matrix proteins because of fibroblastic hyperactivation. We present a very rare case of the complete form of pachydermoperiostosis in a young Indian male.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Asian People / genetics
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Mutation
  • Osteoarthropathy, Primary Hypertrophic / complications*
  • Osteoarthropathy, Primary Hypertrophic / diagnosis
  • Osteoarthropathy, Primary Hypertrophic / genetics
  • Periostitis / etiology*
  • Periostitis / pathology
  • Young Adult