Saturday, 8 October 2011

Sweet's syndrome

- a.k.a acute febrile neutrophilic dermatosis
- presents with fever and acute tender red plaques on face, neck, back or arms
- 50% have hematological disorder and peripheral neutrophilia
- papillary dermal infiltrates of neutrophils
- treatment: corticosteroid

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1 comment:

  1. rhonda: alpha dog26 April 2013 at 01:05

    Thank you so much for blogging about Sweet's Syndrome! This rare disease is humiliating and debilitating.

    FOR MORE INFORMATION: http://sweetssyndromeinfo.com

    Sweet name; bitter disease.

    Great awareness > faster diagnosis > limited suffering > adequate treatment

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