Paraneoplastic Dermatomyositis: About 9 Patients

Dermatomyositis, a rare inflammatory disease possibly of autoimmune origin, produces a characteristic skin rash and sym - metrical proximal myopathy. Patients with Dermatomyositis have a higher incidence rate of cancer, compared with the general population, since DM usually presents as a paraneoplastic syndrome. through the study of 9 cases of paraneoplastic dermato- myositis we will discuss the clinical feature, paraclinical, etiological, therapeutic and outcomes of paraneoplastic dermatomy- ositis (PDM) relative to the literature.