Inflammatory Myopathy as Early Manifestation of Gastric Cancer

Inflammatory myopathy is a paraneoplastic syndrome. Inflammatory myopathy may be the first manifestation of underlying malignancy. It was reported in patients with colon cancer, breast cancer, ovarian cancer, lung cancer and non-Hodgkin lymphoma. There are few reports regarding inflammatory myopathy in patients with gastric cancer. We want to present inflammatory myopathy as early manifestation of gastric cancer in a 65 y/o Asian male.