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Abstract
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 syndrome is associated with LEUKEMIA.
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- Acute Febrile Neutrophilic Dermatosis
- Dermatosis, Neutrophilic, Febrile, Acute
- Gomm Button Disease
- Gomm-Button Disease
- Neutrophilic Dermatosis, Acute Febrile
- Sweet's Syndrome
- Disease, Gomm Button
- Disease, Gomm-Button
- Sweets Syndrome
- Syndrome, Sweet
- Syndrome, Sweet's
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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, congenital, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, veterinary, virology.
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2009 (1992)
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- Skin Diseases (1966-1991)
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Sweet Syndrome. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D016463. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D016463
- Sweet Syndrome. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Febrile_neutrophilic_dermatosis
- Sweet Syndrome. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1514476