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
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Herrera-Méndez M, Cárcamo Estrada M, Orozco N, Paredes-Soto A, Castro Y, Arreola-Zavala E. The oldest clinical sign: digital hypocratism. About four cases. Rev. méd. (Col. Méd. Cir. Guatem.) [Internet]. 2022 Dec. 11 [cited 2025 Jan. 22];161(4):389-93. Available from: https://revistamedicagt.org/index.php/RevMedGuatemala/article/view/557
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