Pulmonary cancer and hypertrophic osteoarthropathy. Brief recurrence of the osteoarticular symptoms after surgical resection.

A case of adenocarcinoma of the lung in a 57 years old patient associated with hypertrophic osteoarthropathy is reported by the authors. The paraneoplastic manifestation occurred after the pulmonary symptoms and receded spontaneously after a right inferior lobectomy was performed. Osteoarticular symptoms returned near after a tumoral recurrence. Articular pains disappeared 48 hours after the tumoral recurrence resection of the chest wall and clubbing disappeared completely after the 3rd. week.