DERMATOMYOSITIS AND MALIGNANCY: A REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE
Authors: R C WILLIAMS
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1959)

Article1 May 1959DERMATOMYOSITIS AND MALIGNANCY: A REVIEW OF THE LITERATURERALPH C. WILLIAMS JR., M.D.RALPH C. WILLIAMS JR., M.D.Author, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-50-5-1174 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptSince the original descriptions by Wagner1and Unverricht2in 1887, dermatomyositis has become a well recognized clinical and pathologic entity. Whether the symptom complex which presents itself as dermatomyositis is truly one disease is open to question, particularly in view of the incidence of associated malignancy in the cases reported. In 1916 Stertz3first called attention to dermatomyositis coupled with neoplasm in a 55 year old man with carcinoma of the stomach who presented with polymyositis. 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