Pregnancy-associated Sweet's syndrome: world literature review.
Sweet's syndrome (acute febrile neutrophilic dermatosis) is a steroid-responsive dermatosis characterized by pyrexia, neutrophilia, and painful erythematous plaques that histologically show a dense dermal infiltrate of neutrophils. Pregnancy-associated Sweet's syndrome is defined as the initial appearance or recurrent episode of Sweet's syndrome in a pregnant woman. Sweet's syndrome occurring during pregnancy has only been described in four women. The clinical characteristics of the women with pregnancy-associated Sweet's syndrome are reviewed and the differential diagnosis of pregnancy-associated dermatoses that clinically mimic Sweet's syndrome are discussed.
Department of Dermatology, University of Texas Medical School, Houston 77030.
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D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D011247:Pregnancy; D011248:Pregnancy Complications / Q000175:diagnosis*; D016463:Sweet Syndrome / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology