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.
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1968-10-01
2018-04-19