Korean J Med.  2002 Mar;62(3):284-288.

A case of Sweet's syndrome with pulmonary involvement

• Choe YJ
• Park WB
• Bang JW
• Kim U
• Yoon JH
• Lee HS
• Oh MD
• Choe KW

Abstract

Sweet's syndrome is a rare disorder presenting with painful erythematous plaques or nodules of the skin with fever, leukocytosis, arthralgia and conjunctivitis.Sweet's syndrome occurs in association with malignant tumors in 10~20% of cases. Eighty five percent of the malignant tumors are hematologic malignancies, acute myelogenous leukemia being most common. Sweet's syndrome occurring in a patient with solid tumor is rare and pulmonary involvement of Sweet's syndrome occurring in a patient with a solid tumor has not been reported in world literature so far. We report a case of Sweet's syndrome presenting with pulmonary nodules in a patient with hepatocellular carcinoma.

Keyword

Sweet's syndrome; Pulmonary nodule; Hepatocellular carcinoma

MeSH Terms

Arthralgia
Carcinoma, Hepatocellular
Fever
Hematologic Neoplasms
Humans
Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute
Leukocytosis
Skin
Sweet Syndrome*