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View larger version (266K): [in this window] [in a new window]   Figure 1. Several erythematous nodules and papulopustules developed on the arms (Panel A), upper legs, and face of a 57-year-old man, accompanied by a fever (temperature as high as 40°C) despite treatment with broad-spectrum antibiotics and amphotericin B, during chemotherapy with cytarabine and idarubicin for acute myelogenous leukemia type M4 according to the French–American–British system of classification. On day 7 of induction therapy, the patient's white-cell count was 500 per cubic millimeter and a biopsy showed a dense infiltrate of neutrophils (arrowheads in Panel B) and mononuclear cells around the sweat glands that extended into the adipose tissue (the . . . [Full Text of this Article]

 

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