title: [Dermatomyositis with cutaneous necrosis revealing a fallopian tube carcinoma].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Adult dermatomyositis is a rare inflammatory myopathy associated with typical cutaneous lesions and an increased incidence of internal malignancies, notably cancers of the female genital tract. Nevertheless, fallopian tube carcinoma is exceptionally associated with dermatomyositis.
  
  
  METHODS
  We report an unusual case of dermatomyositis because of cutaneous necrosis revealing a cancer of the fallopian tube.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Predictive factors of cancer can improve prognosis of dermatomyositis due to earlier diagnosis of associated cancer. In our observation as in literature review, cutaneous necrosis lesions are highly predictive of an associated neoplasia even as rare as a fallopian tube carcinoma.
authors.affiliation: Service de médecine interne, hôpital Saint-Joseph, 26, boulevard de Louvain, 13285 Marseille cedex 08, France.
authors.forename: M-O
authors.initials: MO
authors.lastname: Chandesris
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Durand
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Gamby
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Saadallah-Bouchemot
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Jean
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Figarella-Branger
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Crétel-Durand
mesh_terms: D002277:Carcinoma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D003882:Dermatomyositis / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology; D005185:Fallopian Tube Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D009336:Necrosis; D012867:Skin / Q000473:pathology