[Neutrophilic eccrine hidradenitis associated with relapse of acute myeloblastic leukemia]

Neutrophilic eccrine hidradentitis is a recently described clinical entity. Most reported cases have occurred in patients given chemotherapy for acute myelogenous leukemia, suggesting a drug induced mechanism. Some authors have considered however that neutrophilic eccrine hidradenitis belongs to the group of neutrophilic dermatoses.

We observed neutrophilic eccrine hidradentitis in a 48-year-old man which developed when he suffered a relapse of acute leukemia. He had not been given chemotherapy in the preceding months.

This case favors the hypothesis that neutrophilic eccrine hidradenitis is associated with myeloid hemotology disorders and not a complications secondary to treatment.