Figure 9
From: Sweet's syndrome – a comprehensive review of an acute febrile neutrophilic dermatosis
(a and b). Recurrent, oral corticosteroid-responsive, Sweet's syndrome lesions. A 46-year-old Indian woman with oral corticosteroid-responsive, tender erythematous, biopsy-confirmed plaques of recurrent Sweet's syndrome on the posterior neck (a) and right arm (b). Her laboratory evaluation was significant for the elevation of the erythrocyte sedimentation rate, liver function tests [serum glutamic-oxaloacetic transaminase (SGOT), serum glutamic-pyruvic transaminase (SGPT), and lactate dehydrogenase (LDH)], cytomegalovirus immunoglobulin G (IgG) antibody (consistent with previous exposure), hepatitis A IgG antibody (consistent with previous infection), and Epstein-Barr virus capsid IgG antibody (consistent with recent or past infection). (From [1] Cohen PR, Kurzrock R: Sweet's syndrome revisited: a review of disease concepts. Int J Dermatol 2003;42:761–778. Copyright 2003, Reprinted with permission from the International Society of Dermatology, Blackwell Publishing, Oxford, United Kingdom.)