[Pyoderma gangrenosum and breast cancer: a new case].
We report here a new case of pyoderma gangrenosum (PG) associated with a breast cancer in a 39-year-old woman. We only found in literature three other reports of this rare entity which seems usually to be associated with monoclonal gammopathy, gastro-intestinal diseases such as Crohn's disease, chronic ulcerative colitis, leukemias or rheumatologic diseases. A commun hapten between of tumor and skin may explain the origin of this inflammatory lesion. In our case, PG could be a paraneoplastic syndrome.
Fédération de Cancérologie, CHU - Hôpital Morvan, 5, avenue Foch, 29200 Brest. Jean-Paul.Labat@univ-brest.fr
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D000328:Adult; D001706:Biopsy; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000628:therapy; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008408:Mastectomy / Q000009:adverse effects; D017511:Pyoderma Gangrenosum / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology* / Q000276:immunology