Ascites as the Presenting Symptom of Multiple Myeloma in a Scleroderma Patient

Several reports have demonstrated associations between scleroderma and cancer and between multiple myeloma and autoimmune diseases. Few papers have also reported the concurrence of scleroderma and multiple myeloma. We report a case of multiple myeloma that developed in a male patient after 28 years...

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Autores principales: Hilal, Nadeen, Atallah, Adnan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2014
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4258353/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25506023
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/235958
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description Several reports have demonstrated associations between scleroderma and cancer and between multiple myeloma and autoimmune diseases. Few papers have also reported the concurrence of scleroderma and multiple myeloma. We report a case of multiple myeloma that developed in a male patient after 28 years of fulfilling a diagnosis of scleroderma. The main presenting feature of multiple myeloma was ascites, solely explained by the increased vascular permeability that occurs in this disease.
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spelling pubmed-42583532014-12-11 Ascites as the Presenting Symptom of Multiple Myeloma in a Scleroderma Patient Hilal, Nadeen Atallah, Adnan Case Rep Rheumatol Case Report Several reports have demonstrated associations between scleroderma and cancer and between multiple myeloma and autoimmune diseases. Few papers have also reported the concurrence of scleroderma and multiple myeloma. We report a case of multiple myeloma that developed in a male patient after 28 years of fulfilling a diagnosis of scleroderma. The main presenting feature of multiple myeloma was ascites, solely explained by the increased vascular permeability that occurs in this disease. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2014 2014-11-20 /pmc/articles/PMC4258353/ /pubmed/25506023 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/235958 Text en Copyright © 2014 N. Hilal and A. Atallah. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Ascites as the Presenting Symptom of Multiple Myeloma in a Scleroderma Patient
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title_fullStr Ascites as the Presenting Symptom of Multiple Myeloma in a Scleroderma Patient
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title_short Ascites as the Presenting Symptom of Multiple Myeloma in a Scleroderma Patient
title_sort ascites as the presenting symptom of multiple myeloma in a scleroderma patient
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4258353/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25506023
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/235958
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