ÖZLEM ÖZGÜR GÜNDEŞLİOĞLU, Necdet KUYUCU, Ferah Tuncel DALOGLU, İCLAL GÜRSES

Pediatric Sweet Syndrome: A rare Cause of Fever of Unknown Origin

ISSN: 1301-0883
Başlangıç: 1996
Yayıncı: ERBİL KARAMAN

Sweet syndrome or acute febrile neutrophilic dermatosis, is characterized by fever, elevated neutrophil count, painful erythematous cutaneous lesions that have an infiltrate of mature neutrophils typically located in the upper dermis. In general, it is associated with infections, malignancy and drugs. Sweet syndrome is ra rely seen in pediatric patients. In this report, we present a child who was diagnosed with sweet syndrome because of a rare disease in children with unknown etiology of fever.

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