Professional paper

Idiopathic Sweet’s Syndrome with Oral Manifestations: Case Report and Review of the Literature

Dimitrios Andreadis
George Laskaris
Panagiotis Kapsokefalos
Eleni Gagari

Abstract

Sweet’s syndrome or acute febrile neutrophilic dermatosis is an uncommon skin disease of unknown cause and pathogenesis, occasionally associated with malignancy, which is mostly occurring in middle aged women. Clinically, painful plaqueforming inflammatory papules on the skin are accompanied by high persistent fever and arthralgia and the most consistent laboratory findings are peripheral leukocytosis with neutrophilia. We present a well-documented case of a 62 year-old female patient, with idiopathic Sweet’s syndrome, the first reported in Greece with oral lesions, describing its clinical and histological findings and the treatment, and we also review the relative literature focusing on cases with oral involvement.

Keywords

Sweet’s Syndrome; Acute Febrile Neutrophilic Dermatosis

Hrčak ID:

12547

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/12547

Publication date:

15.6.2007.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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