Sweet, Robert Douglas (flourished 1964), British dermatologist. Sweet published his description of acute febrile neutrophilic dermatosis in 1964.
Medical Dictionary
Sweet's syndrome
noun \ˈswēts-\
Medical Definition of SWEET'S SYNDROME
: a disease that occurs especially in middle-aged women, that is characterized by red raised often painful patches on the skin, fever, and neutrophilia in the peripheral blood, that responds to treatment with corticosteroids but not antibiotics, and that is of unknown cause but is sometimes associated with an underlying malignant disorder—called also acute febrile neutrophilic dermatosis
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