The relationship between neutrophilic dermatosis of the dorsal hands and Sweet syndrome: Report of 9 cases and comparison to atypical pyoderma gangrenosum

Archives of Dermatology

Volumn 142, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 57-63

  Walling, Hobart W ^a,b   Snipes, Clancy J ^a   Gerami, Pedram ^a   Piette, Warren W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b Dermatology PC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; AZITHROMYCIN; CEFALEXIN; CEFTRIAXONE; COLCHICINE; CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYCLOSPORIN; DAPSONE; METHOTREXATE; MINOCYCLINE; POTASSIUM IODIDE; PREDNISONE; STEROID; SULTAMICILLIN; TACROLIMUS; THALIDOMIDE;

ACUTE FEBRILE NEUTROPHILIC DERMATOSIS; ADULT; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; ENTERITIS; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; FEVER; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LEUKEMIA; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LUNG CARCINOMA; MALE; NEUTROPHILIC DERMATOSIS OF THE DORSAL HAND; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN DISEASE; VASCULITIS;

ADULT; AGED; BIOPSY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HAND DERMATOSES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUTROPHILS; PYODERMA GANGRENOSUM; SKIN; SWEET'S SYNDROME; VASCULITIS;

EID: 30844435488     PISSN: 0003987X     EISSN: 0003987X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archderm.142.1.57     Document Type: Article

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