Year 2017 / Volume 109 / Number 1
Letter to the Editor
Alopecia areata as a paraneoplastic syndrome of gastric cancer

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DOI: 10.17235/reed.2016.4455/2016

Judith Álvarez Otero, Francisco Fernández Fernández, Javier de la Fuente Aguado,

Abstract
Alopecia areata produces hair loss in circular patches by an immune mechanism. The association with hematologic malignancies and with digestive tumors has been described. We report the case of a man who presented alopecia areata and two months later he was diagnosed with gastric adenocarcinoma.
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Publication history

Received: 17/05/2016

Accepted: 11/06/2016

Online First: 19/12/2016

Published: 03/01/2017

Article Online First time: 216 days

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