Hypertrophic pulmonary osteoarthropathy in a child with thymic carcinoma: an unusual presentation in childhood

Med Pediatr Oncol. 1994;23(2):140-3. doi: 10.1002/mpo.2950230214.

Abstract

We report here a case of intrathoracic undifferentiated carcinoma in the thymus with hypertrophic pulmonary osteoarthropathy in a 13-year-old girl. The association of the two conditions is very rare.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Carcinoma, Squamous Cell / complications*
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Lymphatic Metastasis
  • Mediastinal Neoplasms / complications
  • Mediastinal Neoplasms / secondary
  • Osteoarthropathy, Secondary Hypertrophic / etiology*
  • Thymus Neoplasms / complications*