Pancreatic adenocarcinoma-associated polymyositis treated with corticosteroids along with cancer specific treatment: case report

BACKGROUND: Adenocarcinoma of the pancreas only rarely is associated with inflammatory myopathy. In this setting, polymyositis may be treated with glucocorticoids in combination with cancer specific treatment. CASE PRESENTATION: We present the case of a 52-year-old man with stage IIA pancreatic tail...

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Autores principales: Syrios, John, Kechagias, Georgios, Xynos, Ioannis D, Gamaletsou, Maria N, Papageorgiou, Aristea, Agrogiannis, George, Tsavaris, Nicolas
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3090365/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21470434
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-230X-11-33

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3090365/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21470434
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-230X-11-33

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