A Case of Sweet’s Syndrome with Early Gastric Cancer

Abstract

The case of a 49-year-old man with Sweet’s syndrome (acute febrile neutrophilic dermatosis) is described, who had coincidently gastric cancer. The therapeutic effectiveness of colchicine is also presented as one treatment for Sweet’s syndrome, because rapid regression of the lesions was noticed.

Sweet's syndrome associated with ovarian carcinoma

“…Von den Driesch [27] has suggested that treatment by granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF) might have caused the occurrenee of Sweet's syndrome in two cases. Colchicine, which was successfully used in some cases [14,25], was ineffective in our patient. Our reported case is an additional indication of the paraneoplastie nature of some Sweet's syndrome cases.…”

“…To our knowledge, 28 cases have been reported to be associated with various carcinomas, such as ovarian [2,3], breast [4][5][6][7][8], uterine [7,9,10], vagina! [11], lung [12,13], stomach [4,9,14], colonic [15,16], rectal [17], prostatic [18][19][20], testieular [12,21], renal [22] and thyroid [23] carcinomas. In one case.…”

Adenocarcinoma gástrico y síndrome sweet como manifestación paraneoplásica.

“…Sólo 18 pacientes con esta condición asociados a cáncer, han sido previamente descritos (1). De los 18 casos en quienes se diagnosticó cáncer; se describen: carcinoma metastásico de origen incierto, cáncer rectal, ovárico, cáncer de colon, cáncer uterino, vaginal, cáncer gástrico, próstata, cáncer de tiroides y cáncer de mama; así como cáncer de Endométrio y Renal (4).…”

“…De 10 a 20% de los casos descritos hasta ahora han estado asociados con cáncer (1). La neoplasia más comúnmente asociada es la leucemia mielógena aguda, sin embargo otros desórdenes mielo-linfoproliferativos y mielodisplásicos han sido descritos, además de asociaciones con artritis reumatoidea, psoriasis y enfermedad de Cröhn.…”

Sweet's Syndrome with Small Cell Carcinoma of the Lung

“…On the other hand, we found 11 cases (8.8%) of 55 associated with solid tumors other than out case. In the worldwide literature, several reports of solid tumors associated with 55 also appear (3)(4)(5)(6)(7)(8)(9)(10)(11)(12). Though solid tumors are less frequently seen than hematologic malignancy, it should be stressed that solid tumors are sometimes associated with 55.…”