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Pulmonary cancer and hypertrophic osteoarthropathy brief recurrence of the osteoarticular symptoms after surgical ressection

A case of adenocarcinoma of the lung in a 57 years old patient associated with hypertrophic ostearthropathy is reported by the authors. The paraneoplastic manifestation occurred after the pulmonary symptoms and receded spontaneously after a right inferior lobectomy was performed. Osteoarticular symptoms returned near after a tumoral recurrence. Articular pains disappeared 48 hours after the tumoral recurrence ressection of the chest wall and clubbing disappeared completely after the 3rd. week.

Pulmonary cancer; Adenocarcinoma; Hyperthrophic; Osteoarthropathy


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