In medicine, nail clubbing (also known as drumstick fingers and watch-glass nails) is a deformity of the fingers and fingernails associated with a number of diseases, mostly of the heart and lungs. Hippocrates was probably the first to document clubbing as a sign of disease, and the phenomenon is therefore occasionally called Hippocratic fingers.
Idiopathic clubbing can also occur, and 60% of cases have no associated underlying disease.
Read more about Nail Clubbing: Signs and Symptoms, Diagnosis, Disease Associations, Pathophysiology, Epidemiology
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