The oldest clinical sign: digital hypocratism. About four cases
Vol. 161 No. 4: October - December, 2022
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Hippocrates described 2,500 years ago "the balloon deformity of the fingertips as a sign of a serious internal disease". The radiology in the 19th century allowed the French clinician Pierre Marie to coin the term hypertrophic osteoarthropathy (HOA
The oldest clinical sign: digital hypocratism. About four cases. (2022). Revista médica (Colegio De Médicos Y Cirujanos De Guatemala), 161(4), 389-393. https://doi.org/10.36109/rmg.v161i4.557
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The oldest clinical sign: digital hypocratism. About four cases. (2022). Revista médica (Colegio De Médicos Y Cirujanos De Guatemala), 161(4), 389-393. https://doi.org/10.36109/rmg.v161i4.557