Sweet Syndrome

 Dr. Robert Douglas Sweet, a British dermatologist at Plymouth General Hospital, first described the condition in 1964.

                                  

He published a landmark paper in the British Journal of Dermatology titled “An acute febrile neutrophilic dermatosis”.

His report included 8 female patients, all presenting with:

Fever, Painful erythematous plaques/nodules on the skin, Neutrophilia, Histology showing dense dermal neutrophilic infiltrates without vasculitis.

                                                                    Sweet Syndrome 

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