[Neutrophilic eccrine hidradenitis in a healthy patient].
BACKGROUND
Neutrophilic eccrine hidradenitis occurs mostly in patients receiving chemotherapy for acute myeloblastic leukemia, rarely in healthy patients. Histopathologic pattern is characteristic and includes selective necrosis of the eccrine glands with a local neutrophilic infiltrate.


METHODS
We report the case of a 41 year-old woman with no medical past-history who developed during 2 years successive papulous skin eruptions. The latter always resolved spontaneously. Skin biopsy led to the diagnosis showing typical features of neutrophilic eccrine hidradenitis.


CONCLUSIONS
Our case is original because the neutrophilic eccrine hidradenitis had occurred in a healthy woman. Neither malignant hematologic disease nor visceral cancer was disclosed in this patient in the following 31 months.
Morice
A
A
Service de Dermatologie de Caen, CHU.
Penven
K
K
Comoz
F
F
Cribier
B
B
Dompmartin
A
A
Leroy
D
D
D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D016575:Hidradenitis / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D012075:Remission, Spontaneous