Sweet's syndrome

ABSTRACT

Sweet's syndrome [acute febrile neutrophilic dermatosis] is characterized by classical skin lesions accompanied by fever and malaise. Systemic involvement may be present and lung involvement in Sweet's syndrome has been reported in the form of bilateral pulmonary infiltrates,bronchiolitis obliterans organizing pneumonia and pleural effusion. There are dense papillary neutrophilic infiltrates on histopathology. We present a case of Sweet's syndrome with right lower lobe consolidation and persistent fever which was non-responsive to antibiotics but showed clinical improvement with clearing of radiological opacities on oral steroid therapy