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Pyoderma gangrenosum—a complication of chronic venous leg ulceration?
Author(s) -
HARLAND C. C.,
MILLARD L. G.
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
clinical and experimental dermatology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.587
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1365-2230
pISSN - 0307-6938
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2230.1993.tb01027.x
Subject(s) - pyoderma gangrenosum , medicine , rheumatoid arthritis , complication , perforation , dermatology , surgery , disease , materials science , punching , metallurgy
Summary Three patients whose chronic venous leg ulcers were complicated by pyoderma gangrenosum are reported. Illnesses which may have predisposed to the development of pyoderma gangrenosum included Crohn's colitis, rheumatoid arthritis and small bowel perforation. Pyoderma gangrenosum should be suspected in susceptible patients whose venous leg ulcers undergo inexplicable and painful deterioration.