Digital clubbing: the bad omen that endures
Digital clubbing is an important clinical sign that is usually associated with serious condition. Most of the diseases causing clubbing are thoracic, but it is sometimes seen in gastrointestinal or endocrinal disorders. In heavy smokers, thoracic malignancy is the most important entity that needs to...
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| description | Digital clubbing is an important clinical sign that is usually associated with serious condition. Most of the diseases causing clubbing are thoracic, but it is sometimes seen in gastrointestinal or endocrinal disorders. In heavy smokers, thoracic malignancy is the most important entity that needs to be ruled out in patients who exhibit clubbing. Here, we will present a case in which a male heavy smoker who exhibited acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and had clubbing, neither had any malignancy on chest computed tomography nor any other medical explanation for the sign. Six months after the first presentation, the patient developed pleural effusion that turned out to be mesothelioma. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-7bd47749955245a0b3371c93501b070e2022-12-22T00:48:51ZengWolters Kluwer Medknow PublicationsEgyptian Journal of Chest Disease and Tuberculosis0422-76382090-99502018-01-0167447547810.4103/ejcdt.ejcdt_53_18Digital clubbing: the bad omen that enduresMahmoud RedaMaged HassanRana RizkDigital clubbing is an important clinical sign that is usually associated with serious condition. Most of the diseases causing clubbing are thoracic, but it is sometimes seen in gastrointestinal or endocrinal disorders. In heavy smokers, thoracic malignancy is the most important entity that needs to be ruled out in patients who exhibit clubbing. Here, we will present a case in which a male heavy smoker who exhibited acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and had clubbing, neither had any malignancy on chest computed tomography nor any other medical explanation for the sign. Six months after the first presentation, the patient developed pleural effusion that turned out to be mesothelioma.http://www.ejcdt.eg.net/article.asp?issn=0422-7638;year=2018;volume=67;issue=4;spage=475;epage=478;aulast=Redaclubbinglung diseasemesotheliomapleural effusion |
| spellingShingle | Mahmoud Reda Maged Hassan Rana Rizk Digital clubbing: the bad omen that endures Egyptian Journal of Chest Disease and Tuberculosis clubbing lung disease mesothelioma pleural effusion |
| title | Digital clubbing: the bad omen that endures |
| title_full | Digital clubbing: the bad omen that endures |
| title_fullStr | Digital clubbing: the bad omen that endures |
| title_full_unstemmed | Digital clubbing: the bad omen that endures |
| title_short | Digital clubbing: the bad omen that endures |
| title_sort | digital clubbing the bad omen that endures |
| topic | clubbing lung disease mesothelioma pleural effusion |
| url | http://www.ejcdt.eg.net/article.asp?issn=0422-7638;year=2018;volume=67;issue=4;spage=475;epage=478;aulast=Reda |
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