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ArticleCureus2020

Hypertrophic Osteoarthropathy Presenting as Rheumatoid Arthritis Mimicker: A Case Report.

Firdevs Ulutaş, Meral Ulu, Uğur Karasu, Veli Çobankara

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Article in Cureus, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing papers in PubMed
0.7field-weighted citation impact, top 29% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 6 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Firdevs UlutaşRheumatology, Pamukkale University, Denizli, TUR.
Meral UluInternal Medicine, Pamukkale University, Denizli, TUR.
Uğur KarasuRheumatology, Pamukkale University, Denizli, TUR.
Veli ÇobankaraRheumatology, Pamukkale University, Denizli, TUR.
Pamukkale University · TR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Paraneoplastic rheumatologic syndromes are defined as clinical conditions that mimic primary rheumatic disease in the course of cancer; they generally improve with the effective treatment of underlying malignancy. Hypertrophic osteoarthropathy (HOA) is one of the paraneoplastic syndromes, and it is characterized by the combined presence of periostosis, digital clubbing, and swelling of soft tissues, skin, and joints in the distal extremities. HOA is commonly associated with intrathoracic malignancies (primary lung tumors or metastases). In this report, we discuss a patient with HOA secondary to lung adenocarcinoma, who was admitted with symmetric polyarthritis presenting as elderly onset rheumatoid arthritis. He was successfully treated with chemotherapy ablation for underlying malignancy. Anti-inflammatory drugs were also administered. HOA should be kept in mind in the differential diagnosis of inflammatory arthritis.

Indexed as

elderly onset rheumatoid arthritishypertrophic osteoarthropathy

Identifiers

PMID32699730
PMCPMC7372233
OpenAlexW3043261324

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