Systemic Arterial Patterns in the Lung and Clubbing of the Fingers

Abstract

The close association between clubbing of the fingers and some forms of heart and lung disease have been reviewed fully by The frequent association of clubbing of the extremities with cyanotic heart disease led to the suggestion that hypoxia was an important causal factor (Mendlowitz, 1942), but hypoxia alone does not account for the presence of finger clubbing in many types of lung disease. Cudkowicz and Wraith (1957a) could find no single clinical common factor in 27 patients with finger clubbing and various pulmonary disorders.