Posts Tagged ‘skin lesions’

Sweet’s syndrome triggered by scalding: A case study and review of the literature

Sweet’s syndrome, a neutrophilic dermatosis originally described by Dr. Robert Douglas Sweet in 1964, is characterized by fever, tender erythematous skin lesions (papules, nodules, and plaques), leucocytosis, and a diffuse neutrophilic infiltrate in the upper dermis . Since it was first described, several hundred cases of Sweet’s syndrome have been reported . Skin hypersensitivity or cutaneous pathology is a feature associated with Sweet’s syndrome in which skin lesions appear at sites of trauma, but only occasionally has it been described following thermal injury . This case report details a rare case of delayed Sweet’s syndrome secondary to a burn, which involved multiple discrete anatomic sites including areas uninvolved with the original burn. (Source: Burns : Journal of the Internatio…

Surgical versus pathological excision margins—an excision too far?

Abstract  A common observation by clinicians who surgically excise skin pathology is the discrepancy between the measured size of the
surgical specimen and that of the measurements reported by the examining pathologist. This discrepancy can often be the difference
between whether, in the case of skin malignancies, the patient requires further wider excision, follow-up and, in cases where
relevant, discharge. Could it therefore mean that patients are needlessly undergoing further excisions that could be avoided
with more careful attention to specimen measurements and specimen ‘shrinkage,’ both surgically and pathologically? We measured
the length and width of skin lesions excised pre- and post-operatively and compared these measurements with the reported histopathological…