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Paraneoplastic Myopathy Introduction Paraneoplastic syndromes are diseases caused by malignancies through means other than mass effect or metastasis . Even though they occur in only about 10% of patients with cancer, physicians are wise to be vigilant for them for several reasons: a paraneoplastic phenomenon can be the first sign of cancer in an undiagnosed individual, and it can be severe enough to cause death. Despite the tumor being distinctly separate from the area where the paraneoplastic syndrome manifests, it is important to realize that paraneoplastic phenomena are not caused by metastases of the neoplasm. It has been recognized that compared with the normal population, patients with idiopathic inflammatory myopathies (IIM) live with an increased risk of developing malignancy. Cancer-associated myositis (CAM) and the malignancy of which it is a paraneoplastic phenomenon can have a parallel clinical course, and relapse of malignancy can be accompanied by a similar resurgence of myositis. Patients with CAM rarely have myositis-specific and myositis-associated autoantibodies (MSA and MAA, respectively). The features of an inflammatory myopathy that are associated with a lower

Author

Balan Louis Gaspar

Publisher

Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd Fka Springer Science + Business Media Singapore Pte Ltd

Published

2023

Language

EN

ISBN

9789811984204

Subjects

Medical, Medicine