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(Chest. 1962;41:571-577.)
© 1962 American College of Chest Physicians

A Curable Arthritis: The Treatment of Chronic Hypertrophic Pulmonary Osteoarthropathy by Surgery of the Chest

Edward F. Skinner M.D., F.C.C.P.1

1 Department of Surgery, University of Tennessee College of Medicine and the Baptist Memorial Hospital

A chest x-ray film should be part of the routine examination of any patient with arthritis. If chronic hypertrophic pulmonary osteoarthropathy is present, it is sometimes possible to cure it by eliminating the pulmonary disease with appropriate therapy.

A summary of six such cases from the files of the Baptist Memorial Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, covering a ten-year period (1947 through 1956) is presented. Three were subsequently considered cured of their arthritis, and one was improved temporarily, but later expired due to progression of cancer. One in the group was a far-advanced case of disseminated carcinoma in whom only palliative or symptomatic therapy could be prescribed and she is considered as unimproved so far as arthritis is concerned.






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