oa South African Medical Journal - Bronchial carcinoma with hypertrophic pulmonary osteoarthropathy

Abstract

The syndrome of hypertrophic pulmonary osteoarthropathy is a rare concomitant of bronchial carcinoma, which is, however, the commonest cause of the syndrome, the essential feature of which is a vagus-dependent hypertrophy of vascular periosteal fibrous tissue which subsequently ossifies.