Case Report

A PATIENT WITH BREAST CANCER ASSOCIATED WITH PARANEOPLASTIC DERMATOMYOSITIS

  • Osman Kurukahvecioğlu
  • T. Utku Yılmaz
  • Ahmet Karamercan
  • H. Ercüment Tekin
  • Erhan Onuk

Eur J Breast Health 2007;3(1):31-32

Dermatomyositis (DM) is an infl ammatory disorder of unknown etiology characterized by muscle weakness and a variety of cutaneous lesions. This disease can be seen as a paraneoplastic syndrome with the incidence of %6-60. We presented a 44-year-old woman who has admitted to the hospital with DM symtoms which haven’t regress during the treatment and has had a breast mass which was ruled out to be a breast cancer during the treatment. After neoadjuvan chemotherapy (KT) and modifi ed radical mastectomy (MRM) DM symptoms were disappeared and no further treatment was needed. DM should be kept in mind for having high coincidence with malignancies. Those patients should be searched for a possible malign disorder.