Open AccessLimbal nodules in Sweet's syndrome
Author(s) -
Davies Rodger
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of ophthalmology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1440-1606
pISSN - 0814-9763
DOI - 10.1111/j.1442-9071.1992.tb00951.x
Subject(s) - sweet's syndrome , medicine , histology , nodule (geology) , pathology , dermatology , biology , paleontology
Sweet's syndrome is acute febrile neutrophilic dermatosis. Conjunctivitis and episceritis have been described with it before. A case of Sweet's syndrome, described here, was found to have limbal nodules with histology similar to the skin lesions. This is the first report of this association.