Hypertrophic pulmonary osteoarthropathy with tripe palms (Image, NEJM) - PulmCCM
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Jan 282012
 

Hayder Saeed and Suleiman Massarweh of the University of Kentucky share with us the story and images of a woman presenting with weight loss and cough, and discovered to have hypertrophic pulmonary osteoarthropathy, velvety palmar skin, clubbing … and an 11 cm adenocarcinoma in the right lung.

Saeed H, Massarweh S. Hypertrophic Pulmonary Osteoarthropathy and Tripe Palms. N Engl J Med 2012;366:360. FREE FULL TEXT

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