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Lung carcinoma with hypertrophic osteoarthropathy in a teenager

Author(s) -

Rowan Miller,

Rowland Illing,

Jeremy Whelan

Publication year - 2011

Publication title -

rare tumors

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.285

H-Index - 15

eISSN - 2036-3613

pISSN - 2036-3605

DOI - 10.4081/rt.2011.e8

Subject(s) - medicine , hypertrophic osteoarthropathy , malignancy , lung , lung cancer , disease , adenocarcinoma , pathology , cystic fibrosis , spinal osteoarthropathy , cancer , dermatology

Hypertrophic osteoarthropathy (HOA) characterised by arthralgia, clubbing and periosteal proliferation of long bones, is rarely encountered in children and adolescents. Whereas in adults over 80% of cases are associated with malignancy, in children the majority of cases are due to non-neoplastic causes such as cystic fibrosis, bilary atresia and congenital heart disease. Up to 5% of adults with lung cancer demonstrate signs of HOA. However, lung cancer is extremely uncommon in children and young people. Here we report a case of lung adenocarcinoma in an 18 year old male associated with HOA present both at diagnosis and at subsequent disease progression

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