[The frequency of the pulmonary hypertrophic osteoarthropathy in autopsies with bronchial carcinomas (author's transl)].

Among 98 autopsies with bronchial carcinomas 7 cases were found with pulmonary hypertrophic osteoarthropathy. The incidence of the osteoarthropathy was neither correlated with the tumor localization nor with the histologic type of cancer. The Bamberger-Marie syndrome has not been the first clinical evidence of a pulmonary carcinoma in our cases.