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Original Article
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Korean J Med. 2007;73(5):544-547.
- 증례 : 편도암을 동반한 피부근염 1예
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- A case of dermatomyositis associated with tonsil cancer
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Ji-Won Jang, Seung-Jae Hong, Yeon-Ah Lee, Sang-Hoon Lee, Hyung-In Yang, Si-Young Kim, Youn Hwa Kim
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경희대학교 의과대학 순환기내과학교실
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- Abstract
- Dermatomyositis is a rare and idiopathic inflammatory myopathy with characteristic cutaneous manifestations. A
61-year-old female presented with the chief complaints of proximal muscle weakness, facial edema and erythema on the
face, chest and back. The patient was diagnosed with dermatomyositis by the clinical manifestation, laboratory findings
and an electromyogram. After a year following appropriate treatment, a tonsil cancer was found. The patient was treated
with three rounds of neoadjuvant chemotherapy and wide excision of the left tonsil. In Korea, a few cases of
dermatomyositis have been reported associated with stomach cancer, breast cancer, acute lymphoblastic leukemia and
lung cancer, but no associated cases with tonsil cancer have yet been reported. We report a case of tonsil cancer that
developed in a patient with dermatomyosits during therapy.(Korean J Med 73:544-547, 2007)
Keywords :Dermatomyositis, Tonsilar neoplasms
