Photoexposed area involvement in acute febrile neutrophilic dermatosis is uncommon and has rarely been described in literature. We report a case of photodistributed Sweets syndrome in a middle aged lady who responded to symptomatic treatment with NSAID and systemic antibiotic. Sweets syndrome is an uncommon inflammatory disorder characterized by the abrupt appearance of painful, oedematous and ...

Thirty one patients were investigated for the main complaint of easy bruising. These patients had normal platelet count with no past history of immune thrombocytopenia or systemic disorders known to predispose to bruising and a negative drug history. The evaluation of these patients included clinical review (history and physical examination) plus coagulation tests consisting of bleeding time, p...

1522-8401/$ see fro doi:10.1016/j.cpem.2 *Department of Pedi yMayerson Center fo Hospital Medica Medicine, Cincin zDivision of Forens Medicine, Louisvi Reprint requests and ment of Pediatrics 40202. (E-mails: mary.pierce@loui [email protected] Bruising is one of the earliest, most common, and easily recognizable signs of physical child abuse and can signal escalating interpersonal violence with...

Introduction Robert Sweet first described a syndrome with a painful, erythematous nodular plaques, neutrophilic dermal infiltrates, fevers and peripheral neutrophilia. This cluster of syndromes became known as Sweet’s syndrome. There have been many published cases in children of neutrophilic dermatoses and fever which are labeled as Sweet’s syndrome. Recently, however, neutrophilic dermatoses h...

The clinical features and progress of a child with the type VII form of Ehlers-Danlos syndrome due to a deletion in the pro alpha 1(I) of type I procollagen were studied. The child was born with bilateral dislocations of hips and knees and all other joints were markedly hypermobile. Persistent severe joint instability was the major clinical abnormality. She had a depressed nasal bridge with pro...