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Palmar fasciitis and arthritis with malignant neoplasms: A paraneoplastic syndrome
- Source :
- Seminars in Arthritis and Rheumatism. 16:118-125
- Publication Year :
- 1986
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 1986.
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Abstract
- VARIETY of musculoskeletal syndromes have been associated with malignancy.’ Among these, hypertrophic pulmonary osteoarthropathy, dermatomyositis, and carcinomatous polyarthritis are the most frequently recognized.‘** Shoulder-hand syndrome, a variant of reflex sympathetic dystrophy, is another rheumatic disorder that has occasionally been associated with malignant neoplasms.3-‘5 Although brain and lung malignancies are the tumors most frequently associated with this syndrome,6*7,9-‘3 carcinoma of the bladder,8*14 uterus,15 breast,‘*” and esophagus, ‘*I4 have also been reported. Recently, a syndrome that has been termed “palmar fasciitis and arthritis” has been reported to occur in association with ovarian adenocarcinoma.3 This disorder differs from the usual case of shoulder-hand syndrome in that the progression and extent of rheumatic disease are much more dramatic. Specifically, the fasciitis is more severe, the arthritis more inflammatory, and both are more rapidly progressive than generally seen in shoulder-hand syndrome. Com
- Subjects :
- Male
Pathology
medicine.medical_specialty
Time Factors
Paraneoplastic Syndromes
Arthritis
Breast Neoplasms
Adenocarcinoma
Palmar aponeurosis
Rheumatology
medicine
Carcinoma
Humans
Fasciitis
Esophagus
Aged
Lung
business.industry
Middle Aged
Dermatomyositis
Hand
medicine.disease
Pancreatic Neoplasms
Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy
Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine
medicine.anatomical_structure
Leukemia, Myeloid
Carcinoma, Squamous Cell
Neoplasms, Unknown Primary
Female
Polyarthritis
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 00490172
- Volume :
- 16
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Seminars in Arthritis and Rheumatism
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....c60a5be8ddfa8d6a48eba75e2c4b8279
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1016/0049-0172(86)90045-4