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Zachary Raizman1, Boshra Hosseini2, Sarah Kean3
1Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Canada.
Gynecologic Oncology Reports
|April 25, 2017
Abstract:
•Ovarian cancer can present as paraneoplastic myositis.•Presented with progressive weakness unresponsive to treatment with glucocorticoids•Imaging revealed bilateral ovarian masses, myositis resolved after surgery.•Ovarian cancer should be included on the differential diagnosis of a patient presenting with myositis.

