<unk>  is one of many distant effect disorders due to cancer, with lung cancer being the most common cause but also occurring with ovarian or adrenal malignancies. A distant effect disorder, or a paraneoplastic syndrome, affects distant areas and thus is not related to local compression or obstruction effects from the tumor. Other paraneoplastic syndromes include hypercalcemia, SIADH, Cushing's syndrome and a variety of neurological disorders. Thought to be due to fibrovascular proliferation caused by accumulation of megakaryocytes in the digital vessels which are normally filtered by the lungs.
Hypertrophic osteoarthropathy
Facet joint arthrosis
Arthrofibrosis
Osteochondropathy
Glossitis
Osteochondrosis
Jaccoud arthropathy
Transient synovitis