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[Eight cases of rheumatism associated with cancer]
B Llorente Díez1, J L Alonso Martínez, M Echegaray Agara
1Servicio de Medicina Interna, Hospital de Navarra, Pamplona, Navarra.
Objective:
To study the rheumatic diseases associated with cancer diagnosed in an Internal Medicine Service.
Material And Methods:
A retrospective and descriptive study of the patients diagnosed during 1992-2000 of different rheumatic diseases associated with cancer.
Results:
During a period of 9 years we identified 8 cases of paraneoplastic rheumatisms about a total of 2,127 patient, representing an incidence of 3.7@1000, with a predominance in males. The consultation motive in all them was the clinic of the rheumatic disease. Six of the eight neoplasias were adenocarcinomas.
Conclusions:
Though the paraneoplastic rheumatisms are not frequent, it is necessary take into account their existence when exist antecedent of neoplasia, in patient male and when the clinical course or response to the treatment is atypical.