Clubbing: A tipoff to underlying disease

Geriatrics

Volumn 53, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 54-57

  Saab, Basem Roberto ^a   Kanaan, Nabil Victor ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLCHICINE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CASE REPORT; CLUBBING FINGERS; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HUMAN; HYPERTROPHIC OSTEOARTHROPATHY; LUNG CANCER; MALE; PAIN; SMOKING CESSATION; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; OSTEOARTHROPATHY, SECONDARY HYPERTROPHIC;

EID: 0031700558     PISSN: 0016867X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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