Paraneoplastic giant cell arteritis and prostate cancer

Abstract

Giant cell arteritis (GCA) is rarely associated with cancer. The association paraneoplastic vasculitis and tumors appears to be more frequent with hematologic cancers. The authors report the case of 83-years-old Caucasian man, diagnosed with prostatic adenocarcinoma who developed a paraneoplastic GCA responsive to corticosteroids associated with disease progression.