Neutrophilic eccrine hidradenitis in two neutropenic patients.

Allegue, F; Soria, C; Rocamora, A; Muñoz, E; Freire-Murgueytio, P; Arrazola, J M; Ledo, A · J Am Acad Dermatol · 1990

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Abstract

Neutrophilic eccrine hidradenitis is an uncommon, self-limited dermatosis with a variable clinical presentation. It seems to be due to chemotherapeutic drugs in most cases. Necrosis of the eccrine gland associated with a neutrophilic infiltrate is the histologic hallmark of this disease. We report two additional cases in neutropenic patients with acute myelogenous leukemia in which there was a striking lack of neutrophil infiltration. A new term, drug-associated eccrine hidradenitis, is suggested.

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