Grade IV myositis: A rare complication of docetaxel

Journal of Cancer Research and Therapeutics

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 664-

  Saini, Rajeev ^a   Chandragouda, D ^a   Talwar, Vineet ^a   Rajpurohit, Sajjan ^a  

^a RAJIV GANDHI CANCER INSTITUTE AND RESEARCH CENTRE   (India)

Author keywords

Breast carcinoma; docetaxel; myositis; paraneoplastic

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CARBOPLATIN; CREATINE KINASE; DOCETAXEL; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; GLUCOCORTICOID; PREDNISOLONE; TAXOID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CARCINOMA; CASE REPORT; CREATINE KINASE BLOOD LEVEL; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIMB PAIN; LIMB WEAKNESS; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; MYOSITIS; NEUTROPHILIA; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; PATHOLOGY;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MYOSITIS; PREDNISOLONE; TAXOIDS;

EID: 84945116774     PISSN: 09731482     EISSN: 19984138     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0973-1482.144361     Document Type: Article

References (11)

1. Eisenhauer EA, Vermorken JB. The taxoids. Comparative clinical pharmacology and therapeutic potential. Drugs 1998;55:5-30.
2. Freilich RJ, Balmaceda C, Seidman AD, Rubin M, DeAngelis LM. Motor neuropathy due to docetaxel and paclitaxel. Neurology 1996;47:115-8.
3. Schulman P, Kerr LD, Spiera H. A reexamination of the relationship between myositis and malignancy. J Rheumatol 1991;18:1689-92.
4. Levin MI, Mozaffar T, Al-Lozi MT, Pestronk A. Paraneoplastic necrotizing myopathy: Clinical and pathological features. Neurology 1998;50:764-7.
5. Oh SJ. Paraneoplastic vasculitis of the peripheral nervous system. Neurol Clin 1997;15:849-63.
6. Buchbinder R, Hill CL. Malignancy in patients with inflammatory myopathy. Curr Rheumatol Rep 2002;4:415-26.
7. Manganelli P, Ferraccioli G, Passalacqua R, Quaini F. Polymyalgia rheumatica and malignant neoplasms. A report of 3 cases. Recenti Prog Med 1992;83:200-2.
8. Gomm SA, Thatcher N, Barber PV, Cumming WJ. A clinicopathological study of the paraneoplastic neuromuscular syndromes associated with lung cancer. Q J Med 1990;75:577-95.
9. Kelkar P, Masood M, Parry GJ. Distinctive pathologic findings in proximal diabetic neuropathy (diabetic amyotrophy). Neurology 2000;55:83-8.
10. Zuckner J. Drug-related myopathies. Rheum Dis Clin North Am 1994;20:1017-32.
11. Hughes BG, Stuart-Harris R. Docetaxel-induced myositis: Report of a novel side-effect. Intern Med J 2005;35:369-70.