Case report: Schizophrenia and hypertrophic osteoarthropathy, a rare syndrome hiding a life‐threatening condition

Abstract

Abstract Schizophrenia is associated to somatic disorders especially cardio‐vascular and auto‐immune. Through this case report, we describe an association with hypertrophic osteoarthropathy (HPO). For this patient, it was a paraneoplastic syndrome secondary to lung cancer. This syndrome is rare but important to recognize since it could hide a life‐threatening condition.

Keywords

• hypertrophic osteoarthropathy
• oncology
• paraneoplastic syndrome
• schizophrenia
• somatic comorbidity to schizophrenia