Flexion Contractures Associated with a Malignant Neoplasm: 'A Paraneoplastic Syndrome?'

Overview

Journal Clin Rheumatol

Publisher Springer

Specialty Rheumatology

Date 1998 Jun 26

PMID 9641516

Citations 2

Authors

E M Eekhoff

P A van der Lubbe

F C Breedveld

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Abstract

A 71-year-old man developed polyarthritis and, subsequently, severe flexion contractures of multiple joints, particularly the joints of the hands. Eighteen months after developing this disease a parailiacal lymph node metastasis of an unknown primary cancer was found. We suggest that this patient's history, dominated by contractures that resembled the 'palmar fasciitis and polyarthritis syndrome', should be considered as a paraneoplastic syndrome.

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