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Prevalence of digital clubbing in health and malignancy

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Title Prevalence of digital clubbing in health and malignancy
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Creator Preethi BL
Arulponni T
Adarsh K
Bhargav J
Hanumanthappa N
Suresh KP
 
Subject Clubbing
digital clubbing
cancer
oral cancer
oropharyngeal cancer
hsCRP
CRP
head
neck cancer
 
Description Not Available
Digital clubbing is the oldest known clinical sign. Though asymptomatic, it often
predicts the presence of some chronic underlying pulmonary, cardiovascular, neoplastic, hepatobiliary,
mediastinal, endocrine, or gastrointestinal disease. Not much information is available on its association
with malignancy. Clubbing has been commonly associated with lung cancer, more often in non-small
cell lung carcinoma. The objective of this study was to evaluate the prevalence of digital clubbing in
patients with Oral Cancer (solid tumours). Methods: In this case controlled study, cancer patients
attending the Oncology outpatient and their age matched healthy subjects were included. The cancer
patients were grouped as Cases and the Control groups. All subjects were evaluated clinically and a
uniform protocol for clubbing evaluation was applied. Their habits and any underlying coexisting
disease were noted. Results: Over a period of 6 months, 72 subjects were recruited for the study, of
which 36 were patients with diagnosed malignancy (Cases) and 36 were normal healthy subjects
(Controls). Male:Female ratio in Cases was 3:1 v/s 2.2:1 in Controls. Seventy-two percent of the Cases
were tobacco smokers compared to 27.8% in controls. In Cancer patients digital clubbing was positive
in 26 (72.2%) compared to 8 (22.2%) in healthy Controls (p
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Date 2018-11-06T08:38:27Z
2018-11-06T08:38:27Z
2016-01-01
 
Type Research Paper
 
Identifier Not Available
0365-0596
http://krishi.icar.gov.in/jspui/handle/123456789/9565
 
Language English
 
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Publisher Pakistan Journal of Physiology