[Adult-onset Still's disease and hepatic angiosarcoma, a fortuitous association or a paraneoplastic syndrome: a case-report]

Rev Med Interne. 2008 Nov;29(11):936-9. doi: 10.1016/j.revmed.2008.01.028. Epub 2008 Jun 24.
[Article in French]

Abstract

Adult-onset Still's disease is a systemic disorder without specific histological feature. Diagnosis requires to rule out any other disorder including neoplasia. Nevertheless, patients with paraneoplastic adult-onset Still's disease have been reported. We report a patient with an adult-onset Still's disease who presented with a liver involvement at onset. Two years later, a liver angiosarcoma was diagnosed. This report underlines the difficulty of the diagnosis of the adult-onset Still's disease even in the presence of Yamaguchi et al.'s [J Rheumatol 19 (1992) 424-30] and Fautrel et al.'s [Medicine 81 (2002) 194-200] classification criteria and may suggest a link between the initial clinical picture and the discovery nearly two years later, of a liver angiosarcoma.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Female
  • Hemangiosarcoma / pathology*
  • Humans
  • Liver Neoplasms / pathology*
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Paraneoplastic Syndromes / classification
  • Paraneoplastic Syndromes / pathology*
  • Still's Disease, Adult-Onset / classification
  • Still's Disease, Adult-Onset / pathology*