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The prevalence, clinical features, predictive factors and investigations to screen for cancer in patients with inflammatory myositis

A case series from two tertiary care centers in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Ghassan Aljohani, Eman A. Bin Awad, Khalid Alshahrani, Mubark M. Alsaqar, Bashayer Albogami, Saleh H. Almotywee, Hisham Almaimouni, Abdullah S. Dirar, Abdulrahman Alrashid, Rajkumar Rajendram, Emad Masuadi and Mohammed A. Omair
Saudi Medical Journal January 2021, 42 (1) 100-104; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2021.1.25590
Ghassan Aljohani
From the Department of Medicine (Aljohani, Bin Awad, Alsaqar, Albogami, Almotywee, Almaimouni, Dirar, Alrashid, Rajendram, Masuadi), King Abdulaziz Medical City, Ministry of National Guard - Health Affairs; from the College of Medicine (Aljohani, Bin Awad, Alsaqar, Albogami, Almotywee, Almaimouni, Dirar, Alrashid, Rajendram, Masuadi), King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences; from the King Abdullah International Medical Research Center (Aljohani, Bin Awad, Alsaqar, Albogami, Almotywee, Almaimouni, Dirar, Alrashid, Rajendram, Masuadi); and from the Rheumatology Unit (Alshahrani, Omair), Department of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Eman A. Bin Awad
From the Department of Medicine (Aljohani, Bin Awad, Alsaqar, Albogami, Almotywee, Almaimouni, Dirar, Alrashid, Rajendram, Masuadi), King Abdulaziz Medical City, Ministry of National Guard - Health Affairs; from the College of Medicine (Aljohani, Bin Awad, Alsaqar, Albogami, Almotywee, Almaimouni, Dirar, Alrashid, Rajendram, Masuadi), King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences; from the King Abdullah International Medical Research Center (Aljohani, Bin Awad, Alsaqar, Albogami, Almotywee, Almaimouni, Dirar, Alrashid, Rajendram, Masuadi); and from the Rheumatology Unit (Alshahrani, Omair), Department of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Khalid Alshahrani
From the Department of Medicine (Aljohani, Bin Awad, Alsaqar, Albogami, Almotywee, Almaimouni, Dirar, Alrashid, Rajendram, Masuadi), King Abdulaziz Medical City, Ministry of National Guard - Health Affairs; from the College of Medicine (Aljohani, Bin Awad, Alsaqar, Albogami, Almotywee, Almaimouni, Dirar, Alrashid, Rajendram, Masuadi), King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences; from the King Abdullah International Medical Research Center (Aljohani, Bin Awad, Alsaqar, Albogami, Almotywee, Almaimouni, Dirar, Alrashid, Rajendram, Masuadi); and from the Rheumatology Unit (Alshahrani, Omair), Department of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Mubark M. Alsaqar
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Bashayer Albogami
From the Department of Medicine (Aljohani, Bin Awad, Alsaqar, Albogami, Almotywee, Almaimouni, Dirar, Alrashid, Rajendram, Masuadi), King Abdulaziz Medical City, Ministry of National Guard - Health Affairs; from the College of Medicine (Aljohani, Bin Awad, Alsaqar, Albogami, Almotywee, Almaimouni, Dirar, Alrashid, Rajendram, Masuadi), King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences; from the King Abdullah International Medical Research Center (Aljohani, Bin Awad, Alsaqar, Albogami, Almotywee, Almaimouni, Dirar, Alrashid, Rajendram, Masuadi); and from the Rheumatology Unit (Alshahrani, Omair), Department of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Saleh H. Almotywee
From the Department of Medicine (Aljohani, Bin Awad, Alsaqar, Albogami, Almotywee, Almaimouni, Dirar, Alrashid, Rajendram, Masuadi), King Abdulaziz Medical City, Ministry of National Guard - Health Affairs; from the College of Medicine (Aljohani, Bin Awad, Alsaqar, Albogami, Almotywee, Almaimouni, Dirar, Alrashid, Rajendram, Masuadi), King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences; from the King Abdullah International Medical Research Center (Aljohani, Bin Awad, Alsaqar, Albogami, Almotywee, Almaimouni, Dirar, Alrashid, Rajendram, Masuadi); and from the Rheumatology Unit (Alshahrani, Omair), Department of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Hisham Almaimouni
From the Department of Medicine (Aljohani, Bin Awad, Alsaqar, Albogami, Almotywee, Almaimouni, Dirar, Alrashid, Rajendram, Masuadi), King Abdulaziz Medical City, Ministry of National Guard - Health Affairs; from the College of Medicine (Aljohani, Bin Awad, Alsaqar, Albogami, Almotywee, Almaimouni, Dirar, Alrashid, Rajendram, Masuadi), King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences; from the King Abdullah International Medical Research Center (Aljohani, Bin Awad, Alsaqar, Albogami, Almotywee, Almaimouni, Dirar, Alrashid, Rajendram, Masuadi); and from the Rheumatology Unit (Alshahrani, Omair), Department of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Abdullah S. Dirar
From the Department of Medicine (Aljohani, Bin Awad, Alsaqar, Albogami, Almotywee, Almaimouni, Dirar, Alrashid, Rajendram, Masuadi), King Abdulaziz Medical City, Ministry of National Guard - Health Affairs; from the College of Medicine (Aljohani, Bin Awad, Alsaqar, Albogami, Almotywee, Almaimouni, Dirar, Alrashid, Rajendram, Masuadi), King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences; from the King Abdullah International Medical Research Center (Aljohani, Bin Awad, Alsaqar, Albogami, Almotywee, Almaimouni, Dirar, Alrashid, Rajendram, Masuadi); and from the Rheumatology Unit (Alshahrani, Omair), Department of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Abdulrahman Alrashid
From the Department of Medicine (Aljohani, Bin Awad, Alsaqar, Albogami, Almotywee, Almaimouni, Dirar, Alrashid, Rajendram, Masuadi), King Abdulaziz Medical City, Ministry of National Guard - Health Affairs; from the College of Medicine (Aljohani, Bin Awad, Alsaqar, Albogami, Almotywee, Almaimouni, Dirar, Alrashid, Rajendram, Masuadi), King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences; from the King Abdullah International Medical Research Center (Aljohani, Bin Awad, Alsaqar, Albogami, Almotywee, Almaimouni, Dirar, Alrashid, Rajendram, Masuadi); and from the Rheumatology Unit (Alshahrani, Omair), Department of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Rajkumar Rajendram
From the Department of Medicine (Aljohani, Bin Awad, Alsaqar, Albogami, Almotywee, Almaimouni, Dirar, Alrashid, Rajendram, Masuadi), King Abdulaziz Medical City, Ministry of National Guard - Health Affairs; from the College of Medicine (Aljohani, Bin Awad, Alsaqar, Albogami, Almotywee, Almaimouni, Dirar, Alrashid, Rajendram, Masuadi), King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences; from the King Abdullah International Medical Research Center (Aljohani, Bin Awad, Alsaqar, Albogami, Almotywee, Almaimouni, Dirar, Alrashid, Rajendram, Masuadi); and from the Rheumatology Unit (Alshahrani, Omair), Department of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Emad Masuadi
From the Department of Medicine (Aljohani, Bin Awad, Alsaqar, Albogami, Almotywee, Almaimouni, Dirar, Alrashid, Rajendram, Masuadi), King Abdulaziz Medical City, Ministry of National Guard - Health Affairs; from the College of Medicine (Aljohani, Bin Awad, Alsaqar, Albogami, Almotywee, Almaimouni, Dirar, Alrashid, Rajendram, Masuadi), King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences; from the King Abdullah International Medical Research Center (Aljohani, Bin Awad, Alsaqar, Albogami, Almotywee, Almaimouni, Dirar, Alrashid, Rajendram, Masuadi); and from the Rheumatology Unit (Alshahrani, Omair), Department of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Mohammed A. Omair
From the Department of Medicine (Aljohani, Bin Awad, Alsaqar, Albogami, Almotywee, Almaimouni, Dirar, Alrashid, Rajendram, Masuadi), King Abdulaziz Medical City, Ministry of National Guard - Health Affairs; from the College of Medicine (Aljohani, Bin Awad, Alsaqar, Albogami, Almotywee, Almaimouni, Dirar, Alrashid, Rajendram, Masuadi), King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences; from the King Abdullah International Medical Research Center (Aljohani, Bin Awad, Alsaqar, Albogami, Almotywee, Almaimouni, Dirar, Alrashid, Rajendram, Masuadi); and from the Rheumatology Unit (Alshahrani, Omair), Department of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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vol. 42 no. 1 100-104
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2021.1.25590
PubMed 
33399178

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Saudi Medical Journal
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1658-3175
History 
  • Received August 1, 2020
  • Accepted November 23, 2020
  • Published online January 25, 2021.

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Copyright: © Saudi Medical Journal This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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  1. Ghassan Aljohani, MBBS,
  2. Eman A. Bin Awad, MBBS,
  3. Khalid Alshahrani, MBBS,
  4. Mubark M. Alsaqar, MBBS,
  5. Bashayer Albogami, MBBS,
  6. Saleh H. Almotywee, MBBS,
  7. Hisham Almaimouni, MBBS,
  8. Abdullah S. Dirar, MBBS,
  9. Abdulrahman Alrashid, MBBS,
  10. Rajkumar Rajendram, MBBS,
  11. Emad Masuadi, MBBS and
  12. Mohammed A. Omair, MBBS⇑
  1. From the Department of Medicine (Aljohani, Bin Awad, Alsaqar, Albogami, Almotywee, Almaimouni, Dirar, Alrashid, Rajendram, Masuadi), King Abdulaziz Medical City, Ministry of National Guard - Health Affairs; from the College of Medicine (Aljohani, Bin Awad, Alsaqar, Albogami, Almotywee, Almaimouni, Dirar, Alrashid, Rajendram, Masuadi), King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences; from the King Abdullah International Medical Research Center (Aljohani, Bin Awad, Alsaqar, Albogami, Almotywee, Almaimouni, Dirar, Alrashid, Rajendram, Masuadi); and from the Rheumatology Unit (Alshahrani, Omair), Department of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
  1. Address correspondence and reprint request to: Dr. Mohammed A. Omair, Rheumatology Division, Department of Medicine, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. E-mail: momair{at}ksu.edu.sa ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9373-5473
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