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Case Reports
. 2018 Jul-Aug;93(4):576-578.
doi: 10.1590/abd1806-4841.20187353.

Paraneoplastic Sweet's syndrome

Daniela Gomes Cunha  1 , Gabriella Campos-do-Carmo  1 , Julia Macchione Marujo  1 , Gustavo Costa Verardino  2
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Case Reports

Paraneoplastic Sweet's syndrome

Daniela Gomes Cunha et al. An Bras Dermatol. 2018 Jul-Aug.

Abstract

Sweet's syndrome is a rare dermatosis with little-known pathogenesis, associated with some clinical conditions such as infections, autoimmune diseases, inflammatory bowel diseases, vaccination, medications and neoplasms. Hematologic malignancies are the diseases most related to paraneoplastic Sweet's syndrome, but this clinical entity can also be found occasionally in some solid tumors, including genitourinary tract tumors. We report a rare case of paraneoplastic Sweet's syndrome associated with the diagnosis of cervical cancer.

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Erythematous papules and nodules, some with a target-like aspect, on the left arm
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Erythematous papules and nodules on the right leg
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Erythematous plaque and nodule with pseudo-vesicular aspect on the right forearm
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Epidermis with mild orthokeratosis and acanthosis, and papillary dermis with abundant edema (pseudo-vesiculation) as well as perivascular and interstitial inflammatory infiltrate, predominantly polymorphonuclear (Hematoxylin & eosin, x100)
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Presence of neutrophils with perivascular distribution (Hematoxylin & eosin, x400)
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