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Jochanan E. Naschitz, MD; Gleb Slobodin, MD; Daniel Yeshurun, MD; Michael Rozenbaum, MD; Itzhak Rosner, MD
Haifa, Israel

Arch Intern Med. 1997;157(20):2381.

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In an ARCHIVES article, Brooks and McGee¹ reflected on diagnostic dilemmas in polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR). Atypical presenting features pose problems in the diagnosis of PMR, especially since there are a wide variety of diseases that can mimic PMR. A PMR-like syndrome is occasionally the first clinical expression of disseminated cancer. This presentation has been described in the literature,² and additional cases are reported herein.

Patients admitted to the medical ward of a general hospital during an 11-year period were surveyed for the presence of a PMR syndrome in the context of cancer. In all cases, PMR was observed in patients with metastases to bones and joints; none of the patients had the paraneoplastic type of PMR. There were 5 men and 2 women, ranging in age from 37 to 84 years (Table). The onset of PMR preceded the diagnosis of cancer by 1 to 13 months. Systemic symptoms . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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