title: Exacerbated course of atrophoderma of Pasini and Pierini in patient with papillary cancer of the thyroid gland.
abstract: Atrophoderma of Pasini and Pierini is a benign cutaneous atrophy skin to morphea en plaques on repression and is considered as systemic sclerosis-like disorder. A case of female patient with atrophoderma of Pasini and Pierini in whom rapid eruption of new plaques was found after many years of stable disease in described. Papillary cancer of the thyroid gland was diagnosed and acceleration of atrophoderma should be considered as paraneoplastic syndrome.
authors.affiliation: Katedra i Klinika Chorób Wewnetrznych i Reumatologii Slaskiego Uniwersytetu Medycznego w Katowicach. magda.kopec@gazeta.pl
authors.forename: Magdalena
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kopeć-Medrek
authors.forename: Anna
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kotulska
authors.forename: Elzbieta
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Zycińska-Debska
authors.forename: Małgorzata
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Widuchowska
authors.forename: Eugeniusz Józef
authors.initials: EJ
authors.lastname: Kucharz
mesh_terms: D000231:Adenocarcinoma, Papillary / Q000150:complications* / Q000601:surgery; D000328:Adult; D001284:Atrophy / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D010257:Paraneoplastic Syndromes / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology; D012871:Skin Diseases / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology*; D013964:Thyroid Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000601:surgery