Korean J Med.
2005 Sep;69(3):327-330.
A case of systemic sclerosis associated with gastric cancer
- Affiliations
-
- 1Department of Internal Medicine, Dong-A University College of Medicine, Busan, Korea. wtchung@dau.ac.kr
Abstract
- We report the case of a 32-year-old woman who experienced stiffness and thickening of skin and Raynaud's phenomenon. Anti-nuclear antibody, anti-SSA antibody and anti-Scl 70 antibody were positive. Clinical manifestations and laboratory investigations were appropriate to systemic sclerosis (SSc). The patient was also diagnosed as Bormann type III advanced gastric cancer on gastrofiberoscopy. Several reports suggested the association of SSc with various malignant carcinomas. They noted that the most frequent types were lung cancer and skin cancer. Stomach cancer was rarely reported in association with systemic sclerosis. The association between SSc and gastric cancer is not clear, but several mechanisms are proposed in several studies.
Keyword
- Full Text Links
-
- Actions
-
Cited
- CITED
-
- Close
- Share
-
- Similar articles
-
- A Case of Systemic Sclerosis with Coincidental Lung Cancer
- A Case of Systemic Sclerosis Combined with Ovarian Cancer
- Systemic Sclerosis Associated with Non-small Cell Lung Cancer and Papillary Thyroid Cancer: Case Report and Literature Review
- A case of hypoparathyroidism and hypothyroidism in systemic sclerosis
- A Case of SLE-systemic Sclerosis Overlap Syndrome Complicated with Nephrotic Syndrome
