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. 2013 Sep 8;8:136. doi: 10.1186/1750-1172-8-136

Table 4.

Comparative summarized data of patients from the so far largest published case studies for PG between 1985 to 2011[1-3,18,19]

  Powell et al. (1985) von den Driesch (1997) Bennett et al. (2000) Al Ghazal et al. (2011) Binus et al. (2011) Our data
Patients
86
44
86
49
103
259
Sex (m:w)
1:1
1:2.1
1:1.3
1:1.5
1:3.1
1:1.2
Age (mean)
7-71 yrs.
11-80 yrs.
2-83 yrs.
22-95 yrs.
22-88 yrs.
21-94 yrs.
(n.r.)
(50.3 yrs.)
(48.4 yrs.)
(59.7 yrs.)
(51.6 yrs.)
(57.3 yrs.)
Pathogenesis - trauma/surgery
23 (27%)
17 (39%)
n.r.
16 (33%)
32 (31.1%)
111 (42.8%)
Inflammatory disorders
Arthrosis, non rheumatoid arthritis
28 (33%)
n.r.
10 (12%)
1 (2%)
20 (19.4%)
17 (6.6%)
Rheumatoid arthritis
n.r.
5 (11%)
n.r.
3 (6%)
10 (9.7%)
24 (9.3%)
chronic inflammatory bowel disease
31 (36%)
6 (14%)
18 (21%)
3 (6%)
35 (34%)
24 (9.3%)
Crohn: 14 (16%)
Crohn: 3 (7%)
Crohn: 8 (9%)
Crohn: 1 (2%)
Crohn: 17 (16.5%)
Crohn: 7 (2.7%)
Ulcerat. col.: 17 (20%)
Ulcerat. col.: 3 (7%)
Ulcerat. col.: 10 (12%)
Ulcerat. col.: 2 (4%)
Ulcerat. col: 18 (17.5%)
Ulcerat. col.: 17 (6.6%)
Endocrine disorders
Thyreoid disease
5 (6%)
n.r.
n.r.
7 (14%)
4 (3.9%)
29 (11.2%)
Diabetes mellitus
2 (2%)
n.r.
n.r.
14 (29%)
29 (28.2%)
66 (25.5%)
Neoplasia
 
16 (19%) solid: 5 (6%)
5 (11%) solid: 1 (2%)
8 (9%) solid: n.r.
16 (33%) solid: 6 (12%)
21 (20.4%) solid: n.r.
32 (12.4%) solid: 22 (8.5%)
hematolog.: 11 (13%)
hematolog.: 4 (9%)
hematolog.: 8 (9%)
hematolog: 5 (10%)
hematolog.: 21 (20.4%)
hematolog.: 10 (3.9%)
solid neoplasms
Bladder: 1 (1%)
Glioblastoma mult.: 1 (2%)
n.r.
Breast: 2 (4%)
n.r.
Breast: 6 (2.3%)
Colon: 2 (2%)
 
 
Prostate: 1 (2%)
 
Lung: 3 (1.2%)
Prostate: 1 (1%)
 
 
Melanoma: 2 (4%)
 
Prostate: 3 (1.2%)
 
 
 
Glioblastoma mult.: 1 (2%)
 
Melanoma: 3 (1.2%)
 
 
Liver: 2 (0.8%)
 
 
Ovary: 2 (0.8%)
 
 
Colon: 1 (0.4%)
 
 
Larynx: 1 (0.4%)
 
 
Glioblastoma mult.: 1 (0.4%)
Haematological/haematopoetic neoplasia
AML
1 (1%)
n.r.
n.r.
0
1 (0.97%)
1 (0.4%)
CLL
n.r.
1 (2%)
n.r.
0
n.r.
0
CML
n.r.
1 (2%)
n.r.
2 (4%)
n.r.
2 (0.8%)
Other
Myelodysplasia
n.r.
n.r.
3 (4%)
0
2 (1.9%)
0
Polycythemia rubra vera
1 (1%)
n.r.
n.r.
0
2 (1.9%)
0
Monoclonal gammopathy
9 (10%)
n.r.
4 (5%)
2 (4%)
10 (9.7%)
3 (1.2%)
Plasmocytoma
n.r.
1 (2%)
 
0
1 (1.0%)
2 (0.8%)
POEMS syndrome
n.r.
n.r.
1 (1%)
0
n.r.
0
Mycosis fungoides/ cutaneous T-cell lymphoma
n.r.
1 (2%)
n.r.
1 (2%)
n.r.
2 (0.8%)
Hodgkin’s lymphoma
n.r.
n.r.
n.r.
0
1 (1.0%)
0
Myelofibrosis
n.r.
n.r.
n.r.
0
1 (1.0%)
0
Large granular lymphocytic leukaemia
n.r.
n.r.
n.r.
0
1 (1.0%)
0
other Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma n.r. n.r. n.r. 0 1 (1.0%) 0

n. r. = not reported.