Exacerbated course of atrophoderma of Pasini and Pierini in patient with papillary cancer of the thyroid gland.
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.
Kopeć-Medrek
Magdalena
M
Katedra i Klinika Chorób Wewnetrznych i Reumatologii Slaskiego Uniwersytetu Medycznego w Katowicach. magda.kopec@gazeta.pl
Kotulska
Anna
A
Zycińska-Debska
Elzbieta
E
Widuchowska
Małgorzata
M
Kucharz
Eugeniusz Józef
EJ
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