Drug-associated histiocytoid Sweet's syndrome: a true neutrophilic maturation arrest variant.

نویسندگان

  • Angela J Wu
  • Timothy Rodgers
  • Douglas R Fullen
چکیده

Histiocytoid Sweet's syndrome is a recently described entity which has clinical features identical to typical Sweet's syndrome but is distinguished by a dermal cellular infiltrate composed not of mature neutrophils but of immature granulocytes. Herein, we report a case of bone marrow granulocytic maturation arrest and a histological histiocytoid Sweet's-like reaction pattern following trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole therapy.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Journal of cutaneous pathology

دوره 35 2  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2008