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Clubbing in human immunodeficiency virus infection
A Boonen1, G Schrey, S Van der Linden
1Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, University Hospital Maastricht, The Netherlands.
British Journal of Rheumatology
|March 1, 1996
Abstract:
We describe two patients who developed clubbing shortly after HIV seroconversion. None of them had the full syndrome of hypertropic osteoarthropathy. Other causes of clubbing are unlikely. We suggest that clubbing may belong to the spectrum of arthropathies associated with HIV infection.