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Philip R. Cohen, MD

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I read with interest the report by Yanagi et al¹ in which the authors not only describe a 60-year-old Japanese woman with newly diagnosed relapsing polychondritis 3 years following the detection and subsequent successful treatment of stage IIA splenic non-Hodgkin lymphoma but also speculate that some cases of relapsing polychondritis may be paraneoplastic. Mucocutaneous paraneoplastic syndromes may be associated with hematologic malignant neoplasms, solid tumors, or both.² Also, albeit less commonly, individuals with cancer may concurrently or sequentially demonstrate more than 1 mucocutaneous paraneoplastic syndrome.^3-4

The potential association of relapsing polychondritis in patients who have or subsequently develop myelodysplastic syndrome is well established.⁵ In addition to lymphoma, paraneoplastic relapsing polychondritis has also occurred in patients with other hematologic malignant neoplasms and dyscrasias, including aplastic anemia, dysgammaglobulinemia, various leukemias, myeloma, and myeloproliferative disorders.⁵ Individual reports have also been published of paraneoplastic relapsing polychondritis in oncology patients with . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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