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[Pachydermoperiostosis (primary hypertrophic osteoarthropathy)]
N Gómez Rodríguez1, A Atanes Sandoval, J Graña Gil
1Unidad de Reumatología, Servicio de Medicina Interna, Hospital Juan Canalejo, La Coruña.
Anales De Medicina Interna (Madrid, Spain : 1984)
|February 1, 1990
Abstract:
A case of pachydermaperiostosis in a 16 year old male is presented. The main clinical features were bilateral mechanical gonalgia, acropachy, bilateral palpebral ptosis and hyperhydrosis. The diagnosis was confirmed by X-ray, showing a wide, symmetric periostosis. The literature is reviewed and the differential diagnosis is commented on.