Dermatomyositis associated with adenocarcinoma of the lung: A case report

The association of dermatomyositis and underlying malignancies, especially small cell and squamous cell carcinoma of the lung, has been recognized a long time ago. We report the case of a 63-year-old male chronic smoker with adenocarcinoma lung associated with dermatomyositis. The occurrence of derm...

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Autores principales: Palakkuzhiyil, Naseem, Namitha, R., Rakhesh, S. V., Thomas, Rinu, Uvais, N. A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6436299/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30984709
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_467_18
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author Palakkuzhiyil, Naseem
Namitha, R.
Rakhesh, S. V.
Thomas, Rinu
Uvais, N. A.
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description The association of dermatomyositis and underlying malignancies, especially small cell and squamous cell carcinoma of the lung, has been recognized a long time ago. We report the case of a 63-year-old male chronic smoker with adenocarcinoma lung associated with dermatomyositis. The occurrence of dermatomyositis should be considered as a potential presentation of paraneoplastic syndromes and physicians encountering similar clinical situations should perform extensive diagnostic work-up to exclude underlying neoplastic lesions.
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spelling pubmed-64362992019-04-12 Dermatomyositis associated with adenocarcinoma of the lung: A case report Palakkuzhiyil, Naseem Namitha, R. Rakhesh, S. V. Thomas, Rinu Uvais, N. A. J Family Med Prim Care Case Report The association of dermatomyositis and underlying malignancies, especially small cell and squamous cell carcinoma of the lung, has been recognized a long time ago. We report the case of a 63-year-old male chronic smoker with adenocarcinoma lung associated with dermatomyositis. The occurrence of dermatomyositis should be considered as a potential presentation of paraneoplastic syndromes and physicians encountering similar clinical situations should perform extensive diagnostic work-up to exclude underlying neoplastic lesions. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2019-02 /pmc/articles/PMC6436299/ /pubmed/30984709 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_467_18 Text en Copyright: © 2019 Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Palakkuzhiyil, Naseem
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Dermatomyositis associated with adenocarcinoma of the lung: A case report
title Dermatomyositis associated with adenocarcinoma of the lung: A case report
title_full Dermatomyositis associated with adenocarcinoma of the lung: A case report
title_fullStr Dermatomyositis associated with adenocarcinoma of the lung: A case report
title_full_unstemmed Dermatomyositis associated with adenocarcinoma of the lung: A case report
title_short Dermatomyositis associated with adenocarcinoma of the lung: A case report
title_sort dermatomyositis associated with adenocarcinoma of the lung: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6436299/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30984709
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_467_18
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