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Causes of Sweet's syndrome |
| Malignancies |
| Hematopeitic: myelodysplastic syndromes and acute myeloid leukemia, hairy cell leukemia, B and T cell lymphoma, agnogenic myeloid metaplasia |
| Solid tumors: breast, testicular, prostate, ovarian, vaginal squamous cell, genitourinary and gastrointestinal malignancies |
| Viral infections |
| Chronic active hepatitis, cytomegalovirus, human immunodeficiency virus |
| Bacterial infections |
| Streptococcus, mycobacterium, yersinia, typhus, salmonella |
| Autoimmune and collagen vascular diseases |
| Rheumatoid arthritis, systemic lupus erythematosus, mixed connective tissue disease, hashimoto thyroiditis, Sjogren's disease, behcet's disease |
| Medications |
| Furosemide, hydralazine, lithium, oral contraceptive pills, trimethoprim- sulfamethoxazole, minocycline and imatinib mesylate |
| Inflammatory bowel disease |
| Ulcerative Colitis, Crohn's disease |
| Pregnancy |
| Complement deficiency |
| Subacute necrotizing lymhadenitis |
| POEMS syndrome |
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