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  • Title: [A Tunisian case of pachydermoperiostosis].
    Author: Ben Haj Slama K, Bouajina E, Harzallah L, Rammeh N, Ghannouchi MM.
    Journal: Rev Med Liege; 2006 Mar; 61(3):181-4. PubMed ID: 16681005.
    Abstract:
    Clubbed fingers are classically associated with chronic cardiac and pulmonary affection. Pachydermoperiostosis, a rarer aetiology, is a hereditary affection which is difficult to diagnose in its incomplete form. We relate a Tunisian case report. Our patient consulted for joint manifestations. The diagnosis of Pachydermoperiostosis was set up on 3 out of the 4 Borochowitz criteria. The osteoarticular manifestations mainly led to differential diagnosis with secondary hypertrophic osteoarthropathy. The underlying pathogenic mechanism of this disease still remains unclear.
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