Indian Journal of Nuclear Medicine
When Clubbing Meets Blazing Cortices: An Unusual Scintigraphic Mystery
By Nivedita Kundu, Sanjith Lekshmanan Sisily, Kowshik Vengadesan and 1 others.
Abstract
A 26-year-old man presented with progressively worsening bilateral knee and ankle pain and swelling for 10 years, associated with enlargement of fingers of hands and feet.A family history of similar symptoms was present in his father.Clinical examination revealed marked digital clubbing, enlargement of distal extremities, coarse thickened skin folds over the knees and ankles and clinically significant joint involvement with bilateral knee and ankle swelling [Fig 1].
Keywords
- Hypertrophic osteoarthropathy and related conditions
- clubbing
- scintigraphy
- bone scintigraphy
- differential diagnosis
- pulmonary scintigraphy
- Open access
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