Idiopathic clubbing: A case report

NS Neki; Gagandeep Singh Shergill; Amritpal Singh; Amanpreet Kaur; Taranjeet Singh

doi:10.4103/2321-7006.302550

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Year : 2017 \| Volume : 5 \| Issue : 2 \| Page : 80

Idiopathic clubbing: A case report NS Neki¹, Gagandeep Singh Shergill², Amritpal Singh³, Amanpreet Kaur⁴, Taranjeet Singh⁵ ¹ Professor, Department of General Medicine, Government Medical College & Guru Nanak Dev Hospital, Amritsar, India ² Post Graduate student, Department of General Medicine, Government Medical College & Guru Nanak Dev Hospital, Amritsar, India ³ Senior Resident, Department of General Medicine, Government Medical College & Guru Nanak Dev Hospital, Amritsar, India ⁴ Consultant Gynaecologist, Civil Hospital Fatehgarh Sahib, Fatehgarh Sahib, Punjab, India ⁵ Registrar, Department Of Oncology, Atremis Hospital, Gurgaon, Haryana, India Correspondence Address: N S Neki Professor, Department of General Medicine, Government Medical College & Guru Nanak Dev Hospital, Amritsar India Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None DOI: 10.4103/2321-7006.302550

Clubbing of the fingers and toes has been recognized as a clinical manifestation of intra thoracic disease from the earliest times. Hippocrates particularly described the condition as occurring with advanced phthisis and empyema and emphasized the importance of the changes as diagnostic of purulent pleural effusion. Many subsequent authors have described clubbing of the fingers associated with chronic disease of the heart or lungs, but it is still rare in medical literature to find the condition mentioned as being of primary origin. We here present the case of 24 years old female having developed clubbing of all fingers that had no found secondary cause after an extensive search and so thought to be of primary origin.



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