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Objective: Although the case-effect relationship remains inferential in many cases, the study aims to demonstrate the association between rheumatic manifestations and malignancy. Methods: During the fallow-up of the patients with rheumatic diseases, any patient included in the study when malignant diseases was documented. The study population includes 10 patients (6) female and 4 males), average age was 40 year (5-75 years). Results: In 10 patients with rheumatic diseases the following association were found: Lupus-like syndrome and breast carcinoma, polymalgia rheumatic and pulmonary carcinoma, miscellaneous arthropathies and multiple myeloma, pyogenic arthritis and colonic carcinoma, reflex sympathetic dystrophy and pulmonary carcinoma, osteomalacia and osteogenic sarcoma, carcinomatous polyarthritis and leukemia and stomach carcinoma. Conclusions: A wide range of neoplasia may be associated with rheumatic findings. As these patients may first present to the rheumatologist; he should be enabling earlier recognition and diagnosis,
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