PMID- 18955207 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20090309 LR - 20081203 IS - 1167-1122 (Print) IS - 1167-1122 (Linking) VI - 18 IP - 6 DP - 2008 Nov-Dec TI - Incidental cases of subacute cutaneous lupus erythematosus in association with malignancy. PG - 700-4 LID - 10.1684/ejd.2008.0522 [doi] AB - Malignancy and chronic inflammatory diseases seem to be associated to one another. Here we review the literature regarding subacute cutaneous lupus erythematosus (SCLE) and concomitant neoplasia on the basis of 3 short case reports of patients with SCLE who developed breast cancer and lung cancer respectively after long-term disease activity and immunosuppressive therapy. Possible hypotheses for this co-incidence could be: i) malignancy as a consequence of chronic inflammation, ii) malignancy as a consequence of immunosuppressive therapy, iii) paraneoplastic disease, iv) local malignancy following a persisting proliferative or reparative process or v) only coincidental occurrence. FAU - Renner, Regina AU - Renner R AD - Clinic of Dermatology, Venereology und Allergology, University of Leipzig Ph.-Rosenthalstr. 23-25, 04103 Leipzig, Germany. regina.renner@medizin.uni-leipzig.de FAU - Sticherling, Michael AU - Sticherling M LA - eng PT - Case Reports PT - Journal Article DEP - 20081027 PL - France TA - Eur J Dermatol JT - European journal of dermatology : EJD JID - 9206420 SB - IM MH - Breast Neoplasms/*complications MH - Female MH - Humans MH - Lung Neoplasms/*complications MH - Lupus Erythematosus, Cutaneous/*complications/drug therapy/pathology MH - Middle Aged EDAT- 2008/10/29 09:00 MHDA- 2009/03/10 09:00 CRDT- 2008/10/29 09:00 PHST- 2008/07/21 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2008/10/29 09:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2009/03/10 09:00 [medline] PHST- 2008/10/29 09:00 [entrez] AID - ejd.2008.0522 [pii] AID - 10.1684/ejd.2008.0522 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Eur J Dermatol. 2008 Nov-Dec;18(6):700-4. doi: 10.1684/ejd.2008.0522. Epub 2008 Oct 27.