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Sweet's Syndrome
Dermatosis, Neutrophilic, Febrile, Acute | Neutrophilic Dermatosis, Acute Febrile | Acute Febrile Neutrophilic Dermatosis | Sweet Syndrome | Sweets Syndrome | Syndrome, Sweet' | s
Condition characterized by large, rapidly extending, erythematous, tender plaques on the upper body usually accompanied by fever and dermal infiltration of neutrophilic leukocytes. It occurs mostly in middle-aged women, is often preceded by an upper respiratory infection, and clinically resembles erythema multiforme. Sweet's syndrome may herald the appearance of leukemia. |
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