SWEETS-SYNDROME IN CHILDREN

Acute febrile neutrophilic dermatosis (Sweet's syndrome) is a rare inf lammatory disease of unknown cause characterized by painful, erythemat ous plaques and a dermal infiltrate of mature neutrophils. Associated systemic disease is a common finding in patients with Sweet's syndrome , and in fact determines the prognosis; therefore, the diagnosis of Sw eet's syndrome warrants a thorough medical evaluation. We found only 1 7 reported cases of Sweet's syndrome in children. Two cases of Sweet's syndrome in children are presented; these cases are typical, except f or the tibial pain in the first patient and the marked leukocytosis in the second patient. Both patients responded promptly to systemic cort icosteroid therapy, although both had relapse.