[Leiomyosarcoma and Stauffer syndrome].
BACKGROUND
Stauffer's syndrome is a non-metastatic anicteric cholestasis and an inflammatory syndrome usually associated with renal cell carcinoma.


METHODS
We present a case report of an eighty-four-year-old woman who had a leiomyosarcoma revealed by Stauffer's syndrome, which disappeared after surgery.


CONCLUSIONS
Abnormal secretion of interleukin-6 by the leiomyosarcoma could explain this syndrome. The association of Stauffer's syndrome and leiomyosarcoma has never been described.
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Service de médecine interne gériatrique 5, hôpital Gaston-Doumergues, CHU, 5, rue Hoche, 30029 Nîmes, France.
Damigny
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di Castri
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de Wazières
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Fourcade
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D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D002779:Cholestasis / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007249:Inflammation; D015850:Interleukin-6 / Q000378:metabolism / Q000494:pharmacology; D007680:Kidney Neoplasms / Q000150:complications*; D007890:Leiomyosarcoma / Q000150:complications*; D013577:Syndrome
D015850:Interleukin-6