Breast Cancer Presenting as Paraneoplastic Erythroderma: An Extremely Rare Case
Joint Authors
Protopsaltis, Ioannis
Drossou, Aspasia
Katsantonis, Ioannis
Roussos, Nikolaos
Manoludaki, Kassiani
Arvanitis, Miltiadis
Papazafiropoulou, Athanasia
Antonopoulos, Stavros
Source
Issue
Vol. 2014, Issue 2014 (31 Dec. 2014), pp.1-4, 4 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2014-09-11
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
4
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
The skin may exhibit the first clinical evidence of a systemic disease and may provide the first clues to a diagnosis in malignancies.
Erythroderma is defined as generalized redness and scaling and it is a clinical manifestation of a variety of underlying diseases including, rarely, solid tumors.
Breast cancer is associated with a variety of skin paraneoplastic manifestations like acanthosis nigricans, erythromelalgia, thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura, acrokeratosis paraneoplastica, dermatomyositis, systemic sclerosis, and scleroderma.
However, in the literature, the correlation of erythroderma with breast cancer is quite infrequent.
Here, we describe a case of a 76-year-old woman who presented with a paraneoplastic manifestation of erythroderma due to breast cancer.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Protopsaltis, Ioannis& Drossou, Aspasia& Katsantonis, Ioannis& Roussos, Nikolaos& Manoludaki, Kassiani& Arvanitis, Miltiadis…[et al.]. 2014. Breast Cancer Presenting as Paraneoplastic Erythroderma: An Extremely Rare Case. Case Reports in Medicine،Vol. 2014, no. 2014, pp.1-4.
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Modern Language Association (MLA)
Protopsaltis, Ioannis…[et al.]. Breast Cancer Presenting as Paraneoplastic Erythroderma: An Extremely Rare Case. Case Reports in Medicine No. 2014 (2014), pp.1-4.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1017195
American Medical Association (AMA)
Protopsaltis, Ioannis& Drossou, Aspasia& Katsantonis, Ioannis& Roussos, Nikolaos& Manoludaki, Kassiani& Arvanitis, Miltiadis…[et al.]. Breast Cancer Presenting as Paraneoplastic Erythroderma: An Extremely Rare Case. Case Reports in Medicine. 2014. Vol. 2014, no. 2014, pp.1-4.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1017195
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-1017195