Scleroderma renal crisis and cancer.

Scleroderma renal crisis and cancer.

QJM. 2018 Jan 15;:

Authors: Crosnier C, Achille A, Lecouffe-Desprets M, Néel A, Durant C, Agard C

Abstract
We report two cases of elderly patients with diffuse systemic sclerosis (SSc) and inaugural scleroderma renal crisis (SRC). Initial exhaustive search for an underlying cancer was negative, but aggressive metastatic neoplasia was diagnosed after 1 year of follow-up. We emphasize the role of 18-FDG PET-scan to detect neoplasia in the following months after inaugural SRC in elderly.

PMID: 29346637 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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