Age and Ageing Advance Access originally published online on May 30, 2007
Age and Ageing 2007 36(4):470-471; doi:10.1093/ageing/afm050
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Remitting seronegative symmetrical synovitis with pitting oedema associated with lung malignancy
Section of Geriatric Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Address correspondence to: F. U. S. Mattace-Raso. Email: f.mattaceraso{at}erasmusmc.nl
Abstract
RS3PE syndrome is an inflammatory disease which affects mainly males and responds rapidly to low-dose steroids. We describe the concurrence of RS3PE and lung malignancy in a 78-year-old woman. We recommend that an underlying malignancy should always be excluded in patients with RS3PE syndrome, even when general signs and symptoms such as weight loss, anorexia and fever are absent or uncertain.
Keywords: lung malignancy, RS3PE, paraneoplastic syndrome, elderly
Received 2 December 2006; accepted in revised form 6 March 2007.