Paraneoplastic polymyositis associated with breast cancer: a therapeutic emergency.

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Date publication

avril 2011

Auteurs

Membres identifiés du Cancéropôle Est :
Pr MATHELIN Carole


Tous les auteurs :
Croce S, Gueye M, Korganow AC, Chatelus E, Gueye SM, Diemunsch P, Mathelin C

Résumé

The association of polymyositis and cancer was first described in 1916, the most frequent cancers being mammary and gynecological for women, bronchopulmonary for men and digestive for both. This article reports a severe paraneoplastic polymyositis associated with breast cancer. The authors discuss its clinical, pathological and therapeutic particularities.

Référence

Breast Cancer Res Treat. 2011 Apr;126(3):811-4