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PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY
Diabetic autonomic neuropathy 
Rook p.1991, 1998,
Sixth Edition
Familial dysautonomia (Riley–Day syndrome) 
Cold exposure
Congenital autonomic dysfunction with universal pain loss
Post-sympathectomy
PROBABLE BRAIN LESIONS
Asymmetric hyperhidrosis – central nervous system lesions of
cortex, basal ganglia or spinal cord 
Rook p.1993, 1998,
Sixth Edition
Hypothalamic stroke – hemihyperhidrosis 
Neurology
22:1394–1396, 2001
Hypothermia (Hines–Bannick syndrome) 
Without hyperthermia
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Hypertension, post-traumatic
Olfactory
Parkinson’s disease 
Ghatan p.247, 2002, Second Edition
Post-influenza diencephalitis 
Wiad Lek 33:149–152, 1980
Syringomyelia – hyperhidrosis over face and upper arms 
Rook
p.2777, 1998, Sixth Edition
Tumors 
Ghatan p.247, 2002, Second Edition
ASSOCIATION WITH INTRATHORACIC
NEOPLASMS OR LESIONS
Paroxysmal unilateral hyperhidrosis (cervical rib, osteoma,
pulmonary adenocarcinoma, bronchogenic carcinoma,
mesothelioma) 
AD 117:659–661, 1981
ASSOCIATION WITH SYSTEMIC ILLNESS
Acrodynia
Acromegaly 
Br Med J 2 (6195):901–902, 1979
AIDS – episodic spontaneous hyperhidrosis with hypothermia
Clin Inf Dis 29:210, 1999
Alcoholism, chronic
Anorexia nervosa – drenching night sweats during weight
recovery 
Rook p.2795, 1998, Sixth Edition
Apert syndrome (acrocephalosyndactyly) 
Cutis 52:205–208,
1993
Book syndrome – autosomal dominant; canities, hyperhidrosis,
premolar hypodontia 
Am J Hum Genet 2:240–263, 1950
Brucellosis 
Ghatan p.247, 2002, Second Edition
Carcinoid syndrome – foregut (stomach, lung, pancreas) –
bright red geographic flush, sustained, with burning, lacrimation,
wheezing, sweating 
Int J Derm 38:561–567, 1999; Rook
p.2101, 1998, Sixth Edition
Cardiogenic shock
Chediak–Higashi syndrome 
Ghatan p.247, 2002,
Second Edition
Cold exposure 
Lancet ii:1073–1074, 1978
Congestive heart failure
Dermatomyositis
Diabetes mellitus 
Int J Derm 38:561–567, 1999
Emotional stress 
AD 123:890–892, 1987
Epidermolysis bullosa – late onset junctional epidermolysis
bullosa (epidermolysis junctionalis progressiva) – bullae of hands
and feet, nail dystrophy, loss of dermatolyphic pattern, tooth
enamel abnormalities, hyperhidrosis 
BJD 144:1054–1057, 2001
Febrile illnesses
Fructose intolerance – deficit of aldolase B
Fucosidosis type III
Gaucher’s disease, type I
Gout 
Curr Ther 16:863–867, 1998
Graves’ disease 
JAAD 48:641–659, 2003
Herbicide poisoning
Hot environment 
Int J Derm 38:561–567, 1999
Hypertension, post-traumatic 
Ghatan p.247, 2002, Second
Edition
Hyperthyroidism 
JAAD 26:885–902, 1992
Hypoglycemia 
Int J Derm 38:561–567, 1999
Infections, acute and chronic
Insecticide poisoning
Lupus erythematosus, polymyositis overlap syndrome
J Rheumatol 25:1638–1641, 1998
Lymphoma 
Ghatan p.247, 2002, Second Edition
Menopause 
Curr Ther 16:863–867, 1998
Mercury intoxication
Obesity
Over-clothed 
Int J Derm 38:561–567, 1999
Parkinson’s disease
Phenylketonuria 
Ghatan p.247, 2002, Second Edition
Pheochromocytoma 
Rook p.1991, 1998, Sixth Edition; Int J
Derm 38:561–567, 1999
POEMS syndrome (Takatsuki syndrome, Crowe–Fukase
syndrome) – osteosclerotic bone lesions, peripheral
polyneuropathy, hypothyroidism, and hypogonadism;
sclerodermoid changes (thickening of skin), either generalized
or localized (legs), cutaneous angiomas, blue dermal papules
associated with Castleman’s disease (benign reactive
angioendotheliomatosis), diffuse hyperpigmentation,
maculopapular brown-violaceous lesions, purple nodules
JAAD 44:324–329, 2001, JAAD 21:1061–1068, 1989;
JAAD 12:961–964, 1985, AD 124:695–698, 1988, Cutis
61:329–334, 1998; JAAD 40:808–812, 1999
Porphyria
Pregnancy – hyperhidrosis, spares palms 
Ghatan p.297, 2002,
Second Edition
Respiratory failure 
Int J Derm 38:561–567, 1999
Rickets
Ross’ syndrome – segmental compenstory hyperhidrosis
JAAD 28:308–312, 1993
Russell–Silver syndrome – intrauterine and post-natal growth
retardation; triangular facies, childhood hyperhidrosis, limb
asymmetry, café au lait macules, blue sclerae, achromia,
5th finger clinodactyly, genital dysmorphia
Schopf syndrome (oligodontia, hypotrichosis, palmoplantar
hyperkeratosis, apocrine hidrocystomas of eyelid margins)
JAAD 10:922–925, 1984
Scurvy
Syncopal states 
Ghatan p.246, 2002, Second Edition
Thermal stimuli
Thyrotoxicosis 
Int J Derm 38:561–567, 1999
Tyrosinemia type II (Richner–Hanhart syndrome)
JAAD 35:857–859, 1996
Uremia
Visceral disease – asymmetric sweating 
Fed Proc Am Soc Exp
Biol 8:87–88, 1949
After vomiting