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Evidence of Hypertrophic Pulmonary Osteoarthropathy in a Chimpanzee, Pan troglodytes
Author(s) -
Marzke M.W.,
Merbs C.F.
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
journal of medical primatology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.31
H-Index - 42
eISSN - 1600-0684
pISSN - 0047-2565
DOI - 10.1111/j.1600-0684.1984.tb00123.x
Subject(s) - hypertrophic osteoarthropathy , pathological , medicine , spinal osteoarthropathy , dissection (medical) , pathology , troglodytes , anatomy , biology , ecology
Dissection of a chimpanzee has revealed the association of an intrathoracic disease (probably coccidioidomycosis) with periosteal lesions that are restricted almost entirely to the appendicular skeleton and are distributed with bilateral symmetry. These pathological conditions are compatible with a diagnosis of hypertrophic pulmonary osteoarthropathy.