PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Elizabeth Birch AU - Debbie Jenkins AU - Simon Noble TI - Treatment of painful hypertrophic osteoarthropathy associated with non-small cell lung cancer with octreotide: a case report and review of the literature AID - 10.1136/bmjspcare-2011-000052 DP - 2011 Sep 01 TA - BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care PG - 189--192 VI - 1 IP - 2 4099 - http://spcare.bmj.com/content/1/2/189.short 4100 - http://spcare.bmj.com/content/1/2/189.full SO - BMJ Support Palliat Care2011 Sep 01; 1 AB - Hypertrophic osteoarthropathy (HOA) is a syndrome most commonly associated with non-small cell lung cancer and consists of periostitis, digital clubbing and painful polyarthropathy. Its symptoms may be disabling and are reportedly difficult to manage effectively with conventional analgesia. We present a case of a lung cancer patient with opioid resistant painful HOA in whom analgesia was achieved with octreotide.