🔶Schamroth window test🔶 can be used to identify or confirm clubbing. ✔️If 2 opposing fingers are held back to back against each other, a diamond-shaped space should normally appear between the nail beds and the nails of the 2 fingers. ✔️In clubbing, this space (or window) is missing.
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🟢Clubbing is described as a bulbous uniform swelling of the soft tissue of the #terminalphalanx of a digit with subsequent loss of the normal angle between the nail and nail bed.
✔️This is followed by an increase in the #lovibondangle (the angle between the proximal nail fold and the nail plate.🟢
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⏹️CAUSES OF CLUBBING⏹️
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✔️Lung cancer ✔️Hodgkin's Disease
✔️bronchiectasis
✔️Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
✔️Empyema
✔️#cyanoticheartdisease
✔️Celiac sprue
✔️#cirrhosis
✔️Graves disease
✔️#asbestosis
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