[Pulmonary hypertrophic osteoarthropathy of Pierre-Marie-Bamberger. Discussion of 5 cases and review of the literature]

Abstract

Hypertrophic osteoarthropathy (HOA) may be defined as a syndrome of chronic proliferative periostitis of the long bones, clubbing of the fingers and toes, arthralgia and or arthritis, oligo- or polysynovitis. It is often associated with primary pulmonary carcinoma, rarely with other intra- or extrathoracic disease processes. With the present report, the Authors would like to contribute some informations on the clinical aspects of pulmonary HOA and a review of literature.