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Digital Clubbing
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Digital Clubbing
Digital clubbing, also known as drumstick fingers and watch-glass nails, refers to changes in your fingernails or toenails that occur due to an underlying medical condition. Physical changes to the nails may include softening of the nail bed, an increase in the angle between the cuticle and the nail, enlarging or bulging of the tip of the finger, and downward curving of the nail.
Symptom classification
Conditions linked to this sign/symptom
15- Asbestosis
- Atrial Myxoma
- Crohns Disease
- Cystic Fibrosis
- Eisenmengers Syndrome
- Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection in Children
- Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis
- Lymphocytic Interstitial Pneumonitis
- Lymphoid Interstitial Pneumonia
- Nonspecific Interstitial Pneumonia
- Paragonimiasis
- Patent Ductus Arteriosus
- Rheumatologic Paraneoplastic Syndromes
- Transposition of The Great Arteries
- Tricuspid Atresia
Drugs where this is listed as a side effect
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