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KMID : 1038220120390010059
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Archives of Plastic Surgery
2012 Volume.39 No. 1 p.59 ~ p.62
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A Case Report of Sweet’s Syndrome with Parotitis
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Jo Myung-Soo
Lim Young-Bin
Shin Hea-Kyeong
Choe Joon
Seul Jung-Hyun
Jang Suk-Yong
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Abstract
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Sweet’s syndrome is characterized by clinical symptoms, physical features, and pathologic findings which include fever, neutrophilia, tender erythematous skin lesions, and a diffuse infiltrate of mature neutrophils. This is a report of our experience of Sweet’s syndrome with parotitis. A 57-year-old man initially presented with tender swelling on the right cheek similar to parotitis. His symptoms relapsed despite the use of an oral antibiotic agent for 3 weeks. He additionally presented with erythematous papules and plaques on the periocular area and dorsum of both hands. Histiopathologic findings on punch biopsy of the right dorsum of the hand showed superficial perivenular histiocytic infiltration without vasculitis. We confirmed this as histiocytoid Sweet’s syndrome and used systemic corticosteroid. After initiation of treatment with systemic corticosteroids, there was a prompt recovery from both the dermatosis-releated symptoms and skin lesions. Sweet’s syndrome should be considered in patients with therapy-refractory parotitis and unclear infiltrated nodules. We present a confusing case who initially appeared to have parotitis but turned out to have histiocytoid Sweet’s syndrome.
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KEYWORD
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Sweet syndrome, Dermatosis, Parotitis
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