The Sweet syndrome as a cutaneous manifestation of Crohn’s disease

Abstract

Crohn’s disease is an inflammatory bowel disease associated with many extraintestinal manifestations involving multiple organs, including the skin, eyes, liver, and joints. Classic Sweet’s syndrome is a cutaneous manifestation of Crohn’s disease, characterized by sudden onset of painful plaques or nodules of the skin associated with fever and neutrophilia. We present a case of classic Sweet’s syndrome in a patient with well-controlled Crohn’s disease.

Keywords:

• Crohn’s disease
• extraintestinal manifestations
• inflammatory bowel disease
• Sweet’s syndrome