Figure 3
From: Sweet's syndrome – a comprehensive review of an acute febrile neutrophilic dermatosis
(a, b, and c). Drug-induced Sweet's syndrome with photodistributed skin lesions. Photodistributed drug-induced Sweet's syndrome in a 50-year-old woman with trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole-associated acute febrile neutrophilic dermatosis. Distant (a) and closer (b) views of Sweet's syndrome lesions located on the sun-exposed areas of the arms, hands, and upper chest are shown. The biopsy specimen (c) shows a confluent neutrophilic infiltrate in the reticular dermis and edema in the papillary dermis (hematoxylin and eosin, × 50). (From [13] Walker DC, Cohen PR: Trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole-associated acute febrile neutrophilic dermatosis: case report and review of drug-induced Sweet's syndrome. J Am Acad Dermatol 1996;34:918–923. Copyright 1996, Reprinted with permission from the American Academy of Dermatology, Inc, Elsevier Ltd, Oxford, United Kingdom.)