A 64-Year-Old Woman with Chest Pain, Limb Weakness, and Endometrial Cancer-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

A 64-Year-Old Woman with Chest Pain, Limb Weakness, and Endometrial Cancer

Published:2017 Issue: Volume:2017 Page:1-3
ISSN:2090-6889
Container-title:Case Reports in Rheumatology
language:en
Short-container-title:Case Reports in Rheumatology

Author:

Ponthus Simon¹^ORCID,Kherad Omar¹,Petriccioli Nicole¹,Lobrinus Johannes Alexander²,Guerne Pierre-André A.³

Affiliation:

1. Internal Medicine Department, Hôpital de la Tour, Geneva, Switzerland

2. Department of Pathology, Geneva University Hospitals, Geneva, Switzerland

3. Department of Rheumatology, Geneva University Hospitals, Geneva, Switzerland

Abstract

Necrotizing autoimmune myopathy (NAM) is a rare subgroup of idiopathic inflammatory myopathies (IIM). This pathology usually affects proximal limb muscles and in some cases the myocardium. Patients usually display proximal limb weakness. Muscular biopsy is required to confirm the diagnosis. We report the case of a 64-year-old woman with an atypical first presentation of NAM, manifested by chest pain in the context of metastatic endometrial cancer. The diagnosis of NAM was however made when she returned a second time with proximal limb weakness. A treatment with prednisone was then initiated, to which rituximab was rapidly associated, beside a specific chemotherapy.

Publisher

Hindawi Limited

Subject

General Agricultural and Biological Sciences

Link

http://downloads.hindawi.com/journals/crirh/2017/1891897.pdf

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