Abstract:Background. Sweet syndrome may be idiopathic or secondary to malignancy, autoimmune and other related inflammatory disorders, and drugs. Association with autoimmune thyroiditis is uncommon, and only in recent years a possible relationship with clindamycin has been reported. Main observations. A 46-year-old woman diagnosed of hypothyroidism one year earlier was treated with clindamycin for erysipelas affecting both legs. A few days later she became febrile, and plaques, nodules and pustules appeared in the ante… Show more
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