Case report: Schizophrenia and hypertrophic osteoarthropathy, a rare syndrome hiding a life‐threatening condition | Zendy

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Case report: Schizophrenia and hypertrophic osteoarthropathy, a rare syndrome hiding a life‐threatening condition

Author(s) -

Baklouti Emna,

Karoui Mehdi,

Kammoun Rania,

Ellouze Faten

Publication year - 2022

Publication title -

clinical case reports

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.21

H-Index - 9

ISSN - 2050-0904

DOI - 10.1002/ccr3.5247

Subject(s) - medicine , hypertrophic osteoarthropathy , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , lung cancer , spinal osteoarthropathy , pathology , dermatology , psychiatry

Schizophrenia is associated to somatic disorders especially cardio‐vascular and auto‐immune. Through this case report, we describe an association with hypertrophic osteoarthropathy (HPO). For this patient, it was a paraneoplastic syndrome secondary to lung cancer. This syndrome is rare but important to recognize since it could hide a life‐threatening condition.

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