Febrile neutrophilic dermatosis
| Sweet syndrome | |
|---|---|
| Sweet syndrome lesions with the classical form of the dermatosis. | |
| Specialty | Dermatology |
Sweet syndrome (SS), or acute febrile neutrophilic dermatosis,[1][2] is a skin disease characterized by the sudden onset of fever, an elevated white blood cell count, and tender, red, well-demarcated papules and plaques that show dense infiltrates by neutrophil granulocytes on histologic examination.
The syndrome was first described in 1964 by Robert Douglas Sweet. It was also known as Gomm–Button disease in honour of the first two patients Sweet diagnosed with the condition.[3][4][5]
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- ^ Sweet RD (1964). "An acute febrile neutrophilic dermatosis". Br. J. Dermatol. 76 (8–9): 349–56. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2133.1964.tb14541.x. PMID 14201182. S2CID 53772268.
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