Tonsillar Squamous Cell Carcinoma Associated with Dermatomyositis: The First 2 Cases in Korea

Dermatomyositis (DM) is an autoimmune disorder with idiopathic myopathy and characteristic skin manifestations that one often accompanied by an internal malignancy. The association between dermatomyositis and malignancy has been reported several times, although tonsillar carcinoma is extremely rare...

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Autores principales: Kim, Sung Wan, Shim, Ju Sup, Eun, Young Gyu, Kwon, Kee Hwan
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Yonsei University College of Medicine 2010
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2880279/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20499432
http://dx.doi.org/10.3349/ymj.2010.51.4.605
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author Kim, Sung Wan
Shim, Ju Sup
Eun, Young Gyu
Kwon, Kee Hwan
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description Dermatomyositis (DM) is an autoimmune disorder with idiopathic myopathy and characteristic skin manifestations that one often accompanied by an internal malignancy. The association between dermatomyositis and malignancy has been reported several times, although tonsillar carcinoma is extremely rare not only in far eastern populations but also in caucasian populations. We report two cases of Korean patients with dermatomyositis associated with tonsillar carcinoma.
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spelling pubmed-28802792010-07-01 Tonsillar Squamous Cell Carcinoma Associated with Dermatomyositis: The First 2 Cases in Korea Kim, Sung Wan Shim, Ju Sup Eun, Young Gyu Kwon, Kee Hwan Yonsei Med J Case Report Dermatomyositis (DM) is an autoimmune disorder with idiopathic myopathy and characteristic skin manifestations that one often accompanied by an internal malignancy. The association between dermatomyositis and malignancy has been reported several times, although tonsillar carcinoma is extremely rare not only in far eastern populations but also in caucasian populations. We report two cases of Korean patients with dermatomyositis associated with tonsillar carcinoma. Yonsei University College of Medicine 2010-07-01 2010-05-24 /pmc/articles/PMC2880279/ /pubmed/20499432 http://dx.doi.org/10.3349/ymj.2010.51.4.605 Text en © Copyright: Yonsei University College of Medicine 2010 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0) which permits unrestricted noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Kim, Sung Wan
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Eun, Young Gyu
Kwon, Kee Hwan
Tonsillar Squamous Cell Carcinoma Associated with Dermatomyositis: The First 2 Cases in Korea
title Tonsillar Squamous Cell Carcinoma Associated with Dermatomyositis: The First 2 Cases in Korea
title_full Tonsillar Squamous Cell Carcinoma Associated with Dermatomyositis: The First 2 Cases in Korea
title_fullStr Tonsillar Squamous Cell Carcinoma Associated with Dermatomyositis: The First 2 Cases in Korea
title_full_unstemmed Tonsillar Squamous Cell Carcinoma Associated with Dermatomyositis: The First 2 Cases in Korea
title_short Tonsillar Squamous Cell Carcinoma Associated with Dermatomyositis: The First 2 Cases in Korea
title_sort tonsillar squamous cell carcinoma associated with dermatomyositis: the first 2 cases in korea
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2880279/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20499432
http://dx.doi.org/10.3349/ymj.2010.51.4.605
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