Dermatology · Dermatology / Neutrophilic dermatoses
Sweet syndrome
also: Acute febrile neutrophilic dermatosis
Painful plaques with fever and neutrophilia.
- Specialty
- Dermatology
- Subspecialty
- Dermatology / Neutrophilic dermatoses
- Sex & age distribution
- Male: affected; Female: affected, classic form 3–4 times more common; Children: yes, rare
- Gene(s) involved
- MEFV
- Alternative names & eponyms
- Acute febrile neutrophilic dermatosis
Etiology & mechanism
Cytokine dysregulation with neutrophil infiltration; associated with infection, malignancy and drugs.
Gene(s) involved (1)
Symptoms & signs (6)
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