Sweet Syndrome Associated with Upper Respiratory Infection and Amoxicillin Use

Sweet syndrome (acute febrile neutrophilic dermatosis) is an uncommon dermatologic eruption characterized by acute onset of painful papules, plaques or nodules on the skin that are red, blue, or violaceous in color. It has been associated with various infections, medications, and malignancies. Here...

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Autor principal: Volpe, Mark
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2016
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Dermatology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4866868/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27186450
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.568
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description Sweet syndrome (acute febrile neutrophilic dermatosis) is an uncommon dermatologic eruption characterized by acute onset of painful papules, plaques or nodules on the skin that are red, blue, or violaceous in color. It has been associated with various infections, medications, and malignancies. Here we report the case of a middle-aged male who presents with Sweet syndrome after an upper resipiratory infection and while using amoxicillin. We also review the diagnostic criteria, laboratory testing, and treatment options.
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spelling pubmed-48668682016-05-16 Sweet Syndrome Associated with Upper Respiratory Infection and Amoxicillin Use Volpe, Mark Cureus Dermatology Sweet syndrome (acute febrile neutrophilic dermatosis) is an uncommon dermatologic eruption characterized by acute onset of painful papules, plaques or nodules on the skin that are red, blue, or violaceous in color. It has been associated with various infections, medications, and malignancies. Here we report the case of a middle-aged male who presents with Sweet syndrome after an upper resipiratory infection and while using amoxicillin. We also review the diagnostic criteria, laboratory testing, and treatment options. Cureus 2016-04-12 /pmc/articles/PMC4866868/ /pubmed/27186450 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.568 Text en Copyright © 2016, Volpe et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Sweet Syndrome Associated with Upper Respiratory Infection and Amoxicillin Use
title Sweet Syndrome Associated with Upper Respiratory Infection and Amoxicillin Use
title_full Sweet Syndrome Associated with Upper Respiratory Infection and Amoxicillin Use
title_fullStr Sweet Syndrome Associated with Upper Respiratory Infection and Amoxicillin Use
title_full_unstemmed Sweet Syndrome Associated with Upper Respiratory Infection and Amoxicillin Use
title_short Sweet Syndrome Associated with Upper Respiratory Infection and Amoxicillin Use
title_sort sweet syndrome associated with upper respiratory infection and amoxicillin use
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4866868/
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