Case Report: A Patient’s Clubbing & Arthralgias Resist Diagnosis

Theodore Korty, DO, is a second-year rheumatology fellow at Regional Medical Center Bayonet Point, Hudson, Fla.

Adam Grunbaum, DO, is the rheumatology program director at Regional Medical Center Bayonet Point.

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