Febrile neutrophilic dermatosis

Sweet syndrome
Sweet syndrome
Other names	(a) Five centimeter pseudovesicular erythematous plaque on the shoulder
	Sweet syndrome lesions with the classical form of the dermatosis.
Specialty	Dermatology

Sweet syndrome (SS), or acute febrile neutrophilic dermatosis, is a skin disease characterized by the sudden onset of fever, an elevated white blood cell count, and tender, red, well-demarcated papules and plaques that show dense infiltrates by neutrophil granulocytes on histologic examination.

The syndrome was first described in 1964 by Robert Douglas Sweet. It was also known as Gomm–Button disease in honour of the first two patients Sweet diagnosed with the condition.

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