A case of paraneoplastic autoimmune pancreatitis: mini-review of paraneoplastic syndromes in breast cancer.

نویسندگان

Lazaros Lekakis

Dimitrios Tryfonopoulos

Gabriel Fakinos

Christos Panopoulos

Maria Theochari

George Koumakis

Stamatina Demiri

Anna Efremidis

چکیده

Breast cancer (BC), the most common type of cancer in women of the Western world, is often associated with paraneoplastic syndromes (PNS). Autoimmune pancreatitis is a recently recognized entity belonging to the spectrum of IgG4-related systemic diseases, which are characterized by target-organ plasmacytic infiltration and fibrosis. In this report we review PNS associated with BC and we present the first case of BC-associated autoimmune pancreatitis as well as its successful management with steroids and immunosuppressive BC-tailored chemotherapy.

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