ABSTRACT
Apresentamos o caso de um paciente com baqueteamento digital e artrite que foi diagnosticado como tendo osteoartropatia hipertrófica primária. Essa é uma doença rara e benigna. Entretanto, artralgia e alterações cutâneas podem reduzir significativamente a qualidade de vida do paciente. Além de um breve resumo da doença, apresentamos o caso e a revisão da literatura, enfatizando o tratamento dessa condição para os clínicos em geral.
We report the case of a patient with clubbing of the digits and arthritis who was diagnosed as having primary hipertrophic osteoarthropathy. This is a rare, benign disease. However, the arthralgia and skin changes can significantly impair the quality of life of the patient. In addition to a brief description of the disease, we present the case and a review of the literature regarding the treatment of this condition to the general practitioner.
Subject(s)
Humans , Male , Adult , Arthralgia , Pain/therapy , Osteoarthropathy, Primary Hypertrophic/therapyABSTRACT
La paquidermoperiostosis u osteoartropatía hipertrófica primaria es una rara enfermedadcaracterizada por compromiso cutáneo y osteoarticular. Comunicamos dos casos que presentabanhipocratismo digital, uñas en vidrio de reloj, agrandamiento óseo, tumefacción articular y diferentes grados deafectación cutánea, sin otros hallazgos clínicos relevantes. Ambos desconocían antecedentes familiares similares.El estudio radiográfico de las zonas comprometidas mostró periostosis. Con resultados de laboratorio yradiografía de tórax normales, y ausencia de evidencia clínica de otra enfermedad subyacente, se realizó diagnósticode osteoartropatía hipertrófica primaria.
Pachydermoperiostosis orprimary hypertrophic osteoarthropathy is a rare disease characterized by cutaneous and osteoarthicularinvolvement. We describe two patients with finger clubbing, watch crystal nails, bones thickenings,arthritis and different grades of skin affection, without other clinical manifestations. Both did not know of havingrelatives with the same alterations. Radiological studies of the affected areas showed periostosis. Because ofnormal laboratory results and chest radiography plus the absence of other underlying causes, diagnosis of primaryhypertrophic osteoarthropathy was made.
Subject(s)
Humans , Male , Female , Adolescent , Adult , Osteoarthropathy, Primary Hypertrophic/pathology , Osteoarthropathy, Primary Hypertrophic/radiotherapy , Osteoarthropathy, Primary Hypertrophic/therapyABSTRACT
La paquidermoperiostosis es una enfermedad poco frecuente que se caracteriza por un engrosamiento de la piel en el cuero cabelludo, frente y párpados, también ocurre en la piel de manos y pies, con un engrosamiento concomitante de las estructuras óseas de las extremidades. El crecimiento acral hace sospechar acromegalia. Su presentación puede ser idiopática, con inicio en la adolescencia y estabilización en la tercera y cuarta década, es de origen genético, de transmisión autosómico dominante y penetranica variable, o secundaria a enfermedades tumorales, principalmente pulmonares o intratorácicas de inicio en la cuarta y quinta décadas de la vida. El tratamiento para sus dos variedades es quirúrgico, ya sea reconstructivo tratándose de la primaria, con mejoría estética; o excisional en el caso de la secundaria, con regresión total o parcial a la normalidad. Se presenta el primer caso conocido en el ámbito de la medicina costarricense, a fin de dar a conocer esta patología al cuerpo científico y facilitar la detección de otros posibles casos. Esta es una enfermedad poco frecuente en el mundo y hasta ahora desconocida en nuestro país.
The disease known as pachydermoperiostosis is of rare occurrence and is characterized by thickening of the skin folds on the forehead and eyelids and in the extremities. It is also accompanied by a gross thickening of the underlying the bony structures of hands and feet, raising the diagnostic possibility of acromegaly. It has two presentations, idiopathic, which is transmitted in an autosomic and dominant fashion with variability in its penetrance and starts in the teen years and halts progression in the third and fourth decades of life, the secondary type starts in the fourth and fifth decade and its secondary to a pulmonary or intrathoracic tumoral lesion. Treatment consists in either reconstructive surgery for the primary type, with cosmetic acceptable results and surgical excision in the secondary type with partial or complete regression of the disease. We present to our knowledge what is the first reported case in Costa Rica with the purpose of informing the scientific body in our country of the existence of the disease and to help detect any other possible cases.