Pierre Marie-Bamberger Syndrome: A unique case report

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Received: 25 March 2019 Revised: 14 May 2019 Accepted for publication 6 June 2019 Correspondence: Syed Ahsan Abbas FMH College of Medicine and Dentistry Kasur. E-mail:ahsanzileali@gmail.com Abstract Hypertrophic osteoarthropathy (HOA) was described by Friedreich in 1868. It is a rare condition with variable presentations including clubbing of the toes and ngers, arthralgia with edema, bilateral ptosis, thickening of the skin and leonine facies. Bone and periarticular tissue proliferation leads to expansive extremities. It is a distant e ect disorder in various neoplasms (paraneoplastic syndrome); o en associated with lung neoplasm. We report a case of a 36 year old Pakistani male smoker, presenting with bilateral joint pains, shortness of breath and grade 4 digital clubbing on general examination.