Prolonged refractory dysphagia in polymyositis

Abstract

Herein, we report a patient with polymyositis (biopsy proved) with dysphagia that did not improve with conventional treatment. An upper gastrointestinal (GI) endoscopy showed esophageal stricture and a biopsy taken from the site revealed evidence of squamous cell carcinoma.

Keywords

• Inflammatory myositis
• polymyositis with dysphagia
• upper GI endoscopy