Clubbing ...lungs cancer is the most common couse of clubbing ,heart disease (Congenital heart defect) and Chronic lung infections that occur in people with bronchiectasis, cystic fibrosis, or lung abscess are also causes of clubbing.
Hi, COPD doesn't make clubbing. Just if there is underlying cancer.
To determine if clubbing is present involves use of the “phalangeal depth ratio.” This ratio compares the “distal phalangeal depth” with the “interphalangeal depth”. In normal individuals, the DPD:IPD ratio is <1. ... An angle greater than 190 degrees is considered consistent with clubbing
Hyppocratisme digitale le resultat d une hypoxie chronique due a un cancer bronchique etc...