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Neutrophilic Dermatoses in Blood Disorders

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Neutrophilic dermatoses have long been associated with neoplastic blood disorders. As early as 1955, a 16-year-old patient with acute myeloid leukemia and recurrent cutaneous lesions including mature neutrophilic infiltrate was reported [1]. In 1973, 9 years after the seminal paper by Dr. Robert Douglas Sweet describing “acute febrile neutrophilic dermatosis”, proper Sweet syndrome was reported in two women as the presenting manifestation of their previously unsuspected acute myeloid leukemia [2].

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Battistella, M. (2018). Neutrophilic Dermatoses in Blood Disorders. In: Wallach, D., Vignon-Pennamen, MD., Valerio Marzano, A. (eds) Neutrophilic Dermatoses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72649-6_17

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