A rare association of Sweet's syndrome with cervical cancer.
BACKGROUND
Approximately 10-20% of patients with Sweet's syndrome have an associated malignancy. To our knowledge, Sweet's syndrome has been reported in cervical cancer in only three other patients.


METHODS
We report a case of a 44-year-old female diagnosed with cervical cancer (FIGO IIIB), treated with concurrent chemotherapy and radiation therapy. Approximately 5 months after completing treatment, she presented with nausea, vomiting, and bullous pustular lesions on the hand. She was found to have a small bowel obstruction due to recurrence of her cervical cancer, and a biopsy of the skin lesion showed a marked dermal neutrophilic infiltrate consistent with Sweet's syndrome.


CONCLUSIONS
We report a case of Sweet's syndrome associated with cervical cancer, which is a rare finding.
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Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX 77555-0711, USA. lrculp@utmb.edu <lrculp@utmb.edu>
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D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D016463:Sweet Syndrome / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology; D002583:Uterine Cervical Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology