[A Tunisian case of pachydermoperiostosis]

Rev Med Liege. 2006 Mar;61(3):181-4.
[Article in French]

Abstract

Clubbed fingers are classically associated with chronic cardiac and pulmonary affection. Pachydermoperiostosis, a rarer aetiology, is a hereditary affection which is difficult to diagnose in its incomplete form. We relate a Tunisian case report. Our patient consulted for joint manifestations. The diagnosis of Pachydermoperiostosis was set up on 3 out of the 4 Borochowitz criteria. The osteoarticular manifestations mainly led to differential diagnosis with secondary hypertrophic osteoarthropathy. The underlying pathogenic mechanism of this disease still remains unclear.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Osteoarthropathy, Primary Hypertrophic / diagnosis*
  • Tunisia