A nasal squamous cell carcinoma complicated by a paraneoplastic syndrome consisting of a myositis and anti-Jo-1 autoantibodies

Eur J Intern Med. 2005 Sep;16(5):369-71. doi: 10.1016/j.ejim.2004.11.020.

Authors

A E van der Bijl¹, A E Meinders, S G van Duinen, J T Tamsma

Affiliation

¹ Department of Rheumatology, Leiden University Medical Centre, Postbus 9600, 2300 RC Leiden, The Netherlands. [email protected]

PMID: 16137556
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejim.2004.11.020

Abstract

We report a female patient with the clinical features of a Jo-1-syndrome as a paraneoplastic phenomenon secondary to a nasal squamous cell carcinoma.