In his self-portraits the progressive symptoms of his physical deterioration, such as cyanosis and finger clubbing, are apparent.
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He is given credit for the first purple description of clubbing of the fingers, an important diagnostic sign in chronic suppurative lung disease, lung cancer and cyanotic heart disease.
Hereditary acropachy (also known as "isolated congenital nail clubbing") may be associated with HPGD.