Asymptomatic erythematous papules in a leukemic patient. Neutrophilic eccrine hidradenitis

Recurrent Neutrophilic Eccrine Hidradenitis in an HIV-1-Infected Patient

“…In 34/54 (63%) of the reported cases including ours, NEH developed in patients with acute myelogenous leukemia and most patients were treated with cytarabine and anthracyclins [1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 10, 12, 13, 15, 16, 17, 18, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 33, 34, 38]. However, NEH also develop in patients with other underlying malignancies, such as Hodgkin’s disease, non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, chronic lymphocytic leukemia, acute lymphoblastic leukemia and cancers [3, 4, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, 28, 31].…”

“…Fifty-three cases have been reported until now in the literature and this condition is mainly found in patients receiving chemotherapy regimens with anthracyclins or cytarabine for acute myelogenous leukemia [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38]. This finding has led some authors to hypothesize that NEH could represent a peculiar reaction to cytotoxic drugs excreted in sweat.…”