A rare disorder of the skin that is characterized by the abrupt onset of painful, edematous, and erythematous lesions (papules, plaques, or nodules) (1). The lesions are often accom...
The most frequent symptom is fever, which may precede the cutaneous manifestations by several days to weeks and can be present throughout the entire episode.
Patients may report an ant...
If untreated, can remain for weeks to months
Without therapeutic intervention, the cutaneous lesions and dermatosis-related symptoms eventually resolve in cases of the classic subtype.
In case...
In the classic subtype, symptoms may remit or show resolution without therapeutic intervention.
Successful management of the cancer in the malignancy-associated subtype occasional...
Chan MP, Duncan LM, Nazarian RM. Subcutaneous Sweet syndrome in the setting of myeloid disorders: a case series and review of the literature. J Am Acad ...
84625002 Acute febrile neutrophilic dermatosis (disorder)
403216007 Sweet’s disease following infection (disorder)
402747005 Sweet’s diseas...
Consider Sweet syndrome in patients with abrupt onset of fever and asymmetric, erythematous, tender papules, plaques, or nodules.
Skin biopsy demonstrates neutrophilic infiltrates in th...
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