ICD-11 classes
14 Diseases of the skin
Inflammatory dermatoses
Inflammatory erythemas and other reactive inflammatory...
Neutrophilic dermatoses
EB20 — Acute febrile neutrophilic dermatosis
ICD-11 EB20 — Acute febrile neutrophilic dermatosis
Sweet syndrome (the eponym for acute febrile neutrophilic dermatosis) is characterised by a constellation of clinical symptoms, physical features, and pathological findings which include fever, neutrophilia, tender erythematous skin lesions (papules, nodules, and plaques), and a diffuse infiltrate consisting predominantly of mature neutrophils that are typically located in the upper dermis. Sweet syndrome presents in three clinical settings: classical (or idiopathic), malignancy-associated, and drug-induced.
It includes 1 item.
- Sweet syndrome
The diagnosis excludes nothing.
It has no clarifying diagnoses.