PITUITARY IMPLICATIONS IN HYPERTROPHIC PULMONARY OSTEOARTHROPATHY
Authors: W BLOOM
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1948)

Case Reports1 August 1948PITUITARY IMPLICATIONS IN HYPERTROPHIC PULMONARY OSTEOARTHROPATHYWILLIAM BLOOM, M.D.WILLIAM BLOOM, M.D.Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-29-2-361 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptThe pathogenesis of chronic hypertrophic osteoarthropathy remains unsolved. The clinical entity is obscured rather than clarified by a multiplicity of unsatisfactory hypotheses.1Within the last five or six years evidence has appeared in the literature that would seem to point to a more logical understanding of this uncommon disease. That the proper approach to this subject is an endocrine one may be suspected by emphasizing the common characteristics of three syndromes which may be confused clinically, viz.—acromegaly, pachyperiostosis of Touraine and Gallé2and hypertrophic pulmonary osteoarthropathy. The first condition is of definite endocrine origin. The second is very often considered...Bibliography1. Prognostic No. 17, Loebs Classical Library, 1923, ii, 25. Google Scholar2. TOURAINESOLENTEGALLÉ AGL: Une syndrome osteodermopathique: la pachydermi plicaturée avec pachyperiostose des extrémités, Presse méd., 1935, xcii, 1820-1824. Google Scholar3. PIGEAUX DM: Récherches nouvelles sur l'etiologie, le symptomatologie et le mécanisme du développement fusiforme de l'éxtrémité des doigts, Arch. gén. de méd., 1932, xxix, 174. Google Scholar4. LOCKE AE: Secondary hypertrophic pulmonary osteoarthropathy, Oxford System of Medicine, Vol. iv, part 3, p. 453. Google Scholar5. MENDELOWITZLESLIE MA: Clubbing and hypertrophic osteoarthropathy, Medicine, 1942, xxi, 269. CrossrefGoogle Scholar6. STERNBERG M: Die Akromegalie, Nothnagel's Handb. spez. Path. u. Therap., 1933, vii, Pare II, 72, li, 573. Google Scholar7. CRUMP C: Histologie der allgemeinen Osteophytose, Virchow's Arch. f. path. Anat., 1929, cclxxi, 467-511. CrossrefGoogle Scholar8. CUSHING FH: "Club fingers" and hypertrophic pulmonary osteoarthropathy, Internat. Clin., 1937, ii, 200-205. Google Scholar9. FORTE AJ: Anatomie et physiologie, du poumon consideré comme organe de sécrétion, 1867, A. Delahaze, Paris. Google Scholar10. ROGERSBENET GHL: Recherches sur la physiologie du poumon, Rev. de méd., 1925, xlii, 1-20. Google Scholar11. ASCHOFF L: Bemerkungen zur Physiologie des Lungengewebes, Ztschr. f. d. ges. exper. Med., 1926, l, 52-63. CrossrefGoogle Scholar12. FRIED BM: Defensive and metabolic apparatus of lungs, Arch. Path., 1928, vi, 1008. Google Scholar13. FRIED BM: Chronic pulmonary osteoarthropathy, dyspituitarism as a probable cause, Arch. Int. Med., 1943, lxxii, 565-580. CrossrefGoogle Scholar14. RYNEARSONSACASA : Proc. Staff Meet. Mayo Clin., 1941, xvi, 353. Google Scholar15. THOMAS HM: Acropachy; secondary subperiosteal new bone formation, Arch. Int. Med., 1933, li, 571-588. CrossrefGoogle Scholar This content is PDF only. To continue reading please click on the PDF icon. Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAffiliations: New York, N. Y.*Received for publication February 5, 1946. PreviousarticleNextarticle Advertisement FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Metrics Cited byIS CLUBBING A GROWTH DISORDER?Paraneoplastische OsteopathieParaneoplastische OsteopathieDigital clubbing and hyperthrophic osteorthropathy: The underlying mechanismsParaneoplastic syndromes Resulting from elaboration of ectopic hormones, antigens and bizarre toxinsINCREASED ŒSTROGEN EXCRETION IN HYPERTROPHIC PULMONARY OSTEOARTHROPATHYExtrapulmonary Manifestations of Bronchogenic CarcinomaTHE CAUSE OF DIGITAL CLUBBINGALDOSTERONE EXCRETION IN NORMAL PREGNANCY AND PRE-ECLAMPSIATHE CAUSE OF DIGITAL CLUBBINGGROSS DIGITAL CLUBBING AND EXOPHTHALMIC OPHTHALMOPLEGIA IN THYROID DISORDERSLUNGS, BONES, AND JOINTSÜber die Ostéoarthropathie hypertrophiante pneumiqueDie Ost�oarthropathie hypertrophiante pneumiqueRHEUMATISM AND ARTHRITIS REVIEW OF AMERICAN AND ENGLISH LITERATURE OF RECENT YEARS (TENTH RHEUMATISM REVIEW)* Part IIWILLIAM D. ROBINSON, M.D., F.A.C.P., EDWARD W. BOLAND, M.D., F.A.C.P., JOSEPH J. BUNIM, M.D., F.A.C.P., DARRELL C. CRAIN, M.D., F.A.C.P., EPHRAIM P. ENGLEMAN, M.D., F.A.C.P., WALLACE GRAHAM, M.D., F.R.C.P. (C), L. MAXWELL LOCKIE, M.D., F.A.C.P., MAX M. MONTGOMERY, M.D., F.A.C.P., CHARLES RAGAN, M.D., F.A.C.P., MARIAN W. ROPES, M.D., F.A.C.P., EDWARD F. ROSENBERG, M.D., F.A.C.P., CHARLEY J. SMYTH, M.D.HYPERTROPHIC OSTEOARTHROPATHY IN PULMONARY MALIGNANCIES*EDWARD S. RAY, M.D., F.A.C.P., HUGH P. FISHER JR., M.D.Chronic Idiopathic Hypertrophic Osteoarthropathy 1 August 1948Volume 29, Issue 2Page: 361-370KeywordsPathogenesis ePublished: 1 December 2008 Issue Published: 1 August 1948 PDF downloadLoading ...