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- Title
Prostate cancer underlying acute, definitive dermatomyositis: successful treatment with radical perineal prostatectomy.
- Authors
Tállai, Béla; Flask&;#x00F3;, Tibor; György, Tóth; Ponyi, Andrea; András, Csilla; Tóth, Csaba; Dankó, Katalin
- Abstract
The idiopathic inflammatory myopathies are systemic autoimmune diseases characterized by chronic inflammation leading to progressive weakness of the proximal muscles. In 7–66% of cases of adult dermatomyositis different malignant tumours can promote the difficult cascade mechanisms at the cell level, leading to rapid weakness of skeletal muscles []. We report on a patient with all characteristic signs of acute, severe dermatomyositis associated with a low-grade, low-stage prostate cancer cured by radical perineal prostatectomy.
- Subjects
MUSCLE diseases; AUTOIMMUNE diseases; INFLAMMATION; MALE reproductive organs; DERMATOMYOSITIS; CUTANEOUS manifestations of general diseases; PROSTATE cancer
- Publication
Clinical Rheumatology, 2006, Vol 25, Issue 1, p119
- ISSN
0770-3198
- Publication type
Letter
- DOI
10.1007/s10067-005-1130-9