Visani G, Patrizi A, Colombini R, Balducci A, Cenacchi A, Gamberi B
Istituto di Ematologia, L. e A. Seràgnoli, Università, Bologna, Italy.
Haematologica. 1990 Mar-Apr;75(2):173-5.
A 55-year-old woman developed Sweet's syndrome (acute febrile neutrophilic dermatosis, AFND) 5 years after a diagnosis of chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL). Two months later she developed a scirrhous carcinoma of the breast. The patient died 7 months later from sepsis. To our knowledge, this is the first case of an association among a cancer of the breast, CLL and Sweet's syndrome.