Digital clubbing as an unusual complication associated with severe secondary hyperparathyroidism: Report of two cases

Hemodialysis International

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 193-197

  Grekas, Dimitrios ^a   Avdelidou, Afrodite ^b  

^a AHEPA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^b NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Chronic hemodialysis; Digital clubbing; Parathyroidectomy; Renal osteodystrophy

Indexed keywords

CALCITRIOL; CALCIUM CARBONATE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLUBBING FINGERS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOGRAPHY; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY POLYCYSTIC DISEASE; MALE; PARATHYROID HYPERPLASIA; PARATHYROIDECTOMY; RENAL OSTEODYSTROPHY; SECONDARY HYPERPARATHYROIDISM; SYMPTOM;

ADULT; HUMANS; HYPERPARATHYROIDISM, SECONDARY; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOARTHROPATHY, SECONDARY HYPERTROPHIC; PARATHYROID GLANDS; PARATHYROIDECTOMY; PLATELET-DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR; RENAL DIALYSIS;

EID: 34047238796     PISSN: 14927535     EISSN: 15424758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1542-4758.2007.00168.x     Document Type: Article

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