An uncommon ocular manifestation of Sweet syndrome: peripheral ulcerative keratitis and nodular scleritis
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An uncommon ocular manifestation of Sweet syndrome: peripheral ulcerative keratitis and nodular scleritis.
Sweet syndrome (acute febrile neutrophilic dermatosis) is characterized by fever, neutrophilic leukocytosis, and abrupt appearance of painful erythematous nodules and plaques, particularly on the face, neck, and limbs. In this study, we report a very rare case of Sweet syndrome in which the patient presented nodular scleritis and peripheral ulcerative keratitis during the dermatologically inact...
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عنوان ژورنال: Arquivos Brasileiros de Oftalmologia
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0004-2749
DOI: 10.5935/0004-2749.20150015