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An Oxymoron or an Epiphenomenon?

Arch Dermatol. 2002;138:400-403.

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IN THIS ISSUE of the ARCHIVES, 2 articles address intriguing features pertaining to neutrophilic dermatosis: (1) a clinicopathologic study that demonstrated the presence of vasculitis in 6 of 28 lesional skin biopsy specimens from 21 patients with Sweet syndrome¹ and (2) a retrospective study of the clinical and histopathologic characteristics found in 7 women with neutrophilic dermatosis of the dorsal hands (NDDH).² How are we to integrate this information into our preexisting concepts of these conditions? My interpretation of these findings has been formulated by asking (and answering) several questions.

What is Sweet syndrome? In 1964, Sweet³ published a report in which he described "a distinctive and fairly severe illness" that he had encountered in 8 women during the 15 years from 1949 to 1964.³ Sweet initially commented that the condition was known in his department as the Gomm-Button disease in "eponymous honour of the first 2 patients," and he . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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