osteoarthropathy

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Related to hypertrophic pulmonary osteoarthropathy: Pulsus paradoxus

osteoarthropathy

[¦äs·tē·ō‚är¦thräp·ə·thē]
(medicine)
Any disease of bony articulations.
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Hypertrophic osteoarthropathy (HOA) includes: pachydermoperiostosis, the primary form of which accounts for 5% of cases; and secondary HOA, 80% of which cases are associated with primary or metastatic pulmonary malignancies (and therefore previously called hypertrophic pulmonary osteoarthropathy).
Curvature of the nails , clubbing of the fingers and hypertrophic pulmonary osteoarthropathy. J Appl Physiol 1948; 1: 458-468.
The many symptoms of pachydermoperiostosis
RADIOLOGIC DIAGNOSIS: Metastatic non-small cell lung cancer with hypertrophic pulmonary osteoarthropathy.
Generalized weakness and fatigue
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