[Rheumatoid arthritis and multiple neoplasms].
In patients with rheumatoid arthritis the appearance of neoplastic disease has been fundamentally described of lymphoproliferative origin. The case of a 59 year old woman with rheumatoid arthritis of a 4 year evolution is reported. The patient was treated with gold salts and methotrexate and presented successively a bronchogenic carcinoma and a non-Hodgkin lymphoma. The epidemiologic studies in the relation of rheumatoid arthritis-neoplasia are discussed and the pathogenic hypotheses to the immune alterations as well as the treatments employed are described.
Ivorra
J
J
Seccione de Reumatología, Hospital d'Alacant, Servei Valencià de Salut.
Massutí
B
B
Román
J
J
Balañá
C
C
Portilla
J
J
Pascual
E
E
D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery; D001172:Arthritis, Rheumatoid / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D008168:Lung / Q000473:pathology; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery; D008228:Lymphoma, Non-Hodgkin / Q000150:complications*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009378:Neoplasms, Multiple Primary / Q000150:complications*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed
Artritis reumatoide y neoplasia múltiple.