Digital clubbing

Lung India

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 354-362

  Sarkar, Malay ^a   Mahesh, D M ^b   Madabhavi, Irappa ^a  

^a INDIRA GANDHI MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

^b JAWAHARLAL INSTITUTE OF POSTGRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Cancer; digital clubbing; hypertrophic osteoarthropathy; megakaryocytes; vascular endothelial growth factor

Indexed keywords

PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR; VASCULOTROPIN;

AORTA ANEURYSM; ASBESTOSIS; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BILIARY CIRRHOSIS; BRONCHIECTASIS; CELIAC DISEASE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CLUBBING FINGERS; CYANOTIC HEART DISEASE; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; DIGITAL INDEX; EMPYEMA; ENTERITIS; FIBROSING ALVEOLITIS; HEPATITIS; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HYPONYCHIAL ANGLE; INTERSTITIAL LUNG DISEASE; LOVIBONDS ANGLE; LUNG ABSCESS; LUNG CANCER; LUNG CARCINOMA; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; LYMPHOSARCOMA; MALIGNANT MESOTHELIOMA; NASOPHARYNX CARCINOMA; PHALANGEAL DEPTH RATIO; PROFILE SIGN; PSEUDOCLUBBING; REVIEW; RHABDOMYOSARCOMA; SCHAMROTH SIGN; SECONDARY HYPERPARATHYROIDISM; STAGING; THYMOMA;

EID: 84870272625     PISSN: 09702113     EISSN: 0974598X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0970-2113.102824     Document Type: Review

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