Paraneoplastic myositis secondary to poorly differentiated serous carcinoma of ovarian/tubal origin

• Ovarian cancer can present as paraneoplastic myositis. • Presented with progressive weakness unresponsive to treatment with glucocorticoids; • Imaging revealed bilateral ovarian masses, myositis resolved after surgery. • Ovarian cancer should be included on the differential diagnosis of a patient...

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Autores principales: Raizman, Zachary, Hosseini, Boshra, Kean, Sarah, Altman, Alon D.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2017
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5390659/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28435850
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gore.2017.04.001
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description • Ovarian cancer can present as paraneoplastic myositis. • Presented with progressive weakness unresponsive to treatment with glucocorticoids; • Imaging revealed bilateral ovarian masses, myositis resolved after surgery. • Ovarian cancer should be included on the differential diagnosis of a patient presenting with myositis.
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spelling pubmed-53906592017-04-21 Paraneoplastic myositis secondary to poorly differentiated serous carcinoma of ovarian/tubal origin Raizman, Zachary Hosseini, Boshra Kean, Sarah Altman, Alon D. Gynecol Oncol Rep Case Report • Ovarian cancer can present as paraneoplastic myositis. • Presented with progressive weakness unresponsive to treatment with glucocorticoids; • Imaging revealed bilateral ovarian masses, myositis resolved after surgery. • Ovarian cancer should be included on the differential diagnosis of a patient presenting with myositis. Elsevier 2017-04-05 /pmc/articles/PMC5390659/ /pubmed/28435850 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gore.2017.04.001 Text en © 2017 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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Paraneoplastic myositis secondary to poorly differentiated serous carcinoma of ovarian/tubal origin
title Paraneoplastic myositis secondary to poorly differentiated serous carcinoma of ovarian/tubal origin
title_full Paraneoplastic myositis secondary to poorly differentiated serous carcinoma of ovarian/tubal origin
title_fullStr Paraneoplastic myositis secondary to poorly differentiated serous carcinoma of ovarian/tubal origin
title_full_unstemmed Paraneoplastic myositis secondary to poorly differentiated serous carcinoma of ovarian/tubal origin
title_short Paraneoplastic myositis secondary to poorly differentiated serous carcinoma of ovarian/tubal origin
title_sort paraneoplastic myositis secondary to poorly differentiated serous carcinoma of ovarian/tubal origin
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5390659/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28435850
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gore.2017.04.001
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