eRAM
encyclopedia of Rare Disease Annotation for Precision Medicine
| Disease | c syndrome |
| Comorbidity | C0242379|lung malignancy |
| Sentences | 1 |
| PubMedID- 21911994 | There are few reports on dermatomyositis and polymyositis presenting as a paraneoplastic syndrome, commonly associated with breast and lung malignancy.1 paraneoplastic syndromes like erythrocytosis, hypercalcemia, hypercholesterolemia and porphyria cutanea tarda have been reported with hepatocellular carcinoma (hcc), but acute polymyositis as a paraneoplastic syndrome in association with hepatocellular carcinoma is rarely reported.2–4 the pathophysiology of the association of polymyositis with hcc is poorly understood. |
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