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Tracheo-bronchial involvement in Sweet syndrome
  1. Kazuya Tanimura,
  2. Hideo Kita,
  3. Yoshihiro Kanemitsu,
  4. Yoshinori Fuseya,
  5. Yuko Katayama
  1. Department of Respiratory Medicine, Takatsuki Red Cross Hospital, Takatsuki city, Osaka, Japan
  1. Correspondence to Dr Kazuya Tanimura, Department of Respiratory Medicine, Takatsuki Red Cross Hospital, Abuno 1-1-1, Takatsuki city, Osaka, 569-1096, Japan; tanigue1981{at}yahoo.co.jp

https://doi.org/10.1136/thx.2009.133256

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    A 70-year-old man with myelofibrosis and Sweet syndrome (acute febrile neutrophilic dermatosis) presented with a 2 month history of cough with bloody sputum (figure 1). No infiltration was visible on a chest radiograph.

    Figure 1

    A well-defined erythematous plaque on the dorsal surface of the hand.

    On bronchoscopic examination, a centrally depressed macular lesion with an eroded surface was revealed in the anterior tracheal wall, …

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    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.

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