[Primary hypertrophic osteoarthropathy]

Z Orthop Ihre Grenzgeb. 1995 Jul-Aug;133(4):303-5. doi: 10.1055/s-2008-1039796.
[Article in German]

Abstract

A case of the very rare primary-hypertrophic-osteoarthropathy (Touraine-Solente-Golé-Syndrome) is reported. A middle-aged women was suffering from chronic joint- and limb-pain for more than twenty years. All diagnostical experiences only showed a cortical thickening mainly of the tubular bones and a craniosclerosis but no link for the possible origin. As typical for the disease, periosteal reactions could be discovered in X-ray examinations too. Thickening of the facial skin as well as drumstick-configurations of the fingers could be seen. A pulmonary affection leading to a secondary pulmonary osteoarthropathy (Pierre-Marie-Bamberger's Syndrome) could be excluded. The syndrome presented here is only to be found in 3 to 5% of all cases with hypertrophic osteoarthropathy. It is a rare differential-diagnosis of chronic bone and joint pain.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Middle Aged
  • Osteoarthropathy, Primary Hypertrophic / diagnostic imaging*
  • Osteoarthropathy, Secondary Hypertrophic / diagnostic imaging
  • Radiography
  • Syndrome