Polymyositis and hepatocellular carcinoma.
We report a patient with recent onset of acute polymyositis who was subsequently found to have a hepatocellular carcinoma, a rare uncommonly associated malignancy.
Sattar
M A
MA
Division of Rheumatology, Mubarak AL-Kabeer Hospital, Kuwait, Arabian Gulf.
Guindi
R T
RT
Khan
R A
RA
Tungekar
M F
MF
D006528:Carcinoma, Hepatocellular / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D008113:Liver Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009220:Myositis / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology