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Postoperative pyoderma gangrenosum

Author(s) -

Gita Faghihi,

Bahareh AbtahiNaeini,

Zahra Nikyar,

Kioumars Jamshidi,

Abdulrahman Bahrami

Publication year - 2014

Publication title -

journal of postgraduate medicine

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.405

H-Index - 52

eISSN - 0972-2823

pISSN - 0022-3859

DOI - 10.4103/0022-3859.147042

Subject(s) - pyoderma gangrenosum , medicine , surgery , wound healing , complication , prednisolone , dermatology , pyoderma , differential diagnosis , disease , pathology

Pyoderma gangrenosum (PG) is an uncommon inflammatory ulcerative skin disease. It is characterized by painful progressive necrosis of the wound margins. Rarely, postoperative pyoderma gangrenosum (PPG) manifests as a severe disturbance of wound healing following surgical interventions. Only rare cases of this complication have been reported after appendectomy. We report a case of PPG in a 29-year-old female after appendectomy. She was successfully treated with oral prednisolone. Postoperative pyoderma gangrenosum should be kept in mind in the differential diagnosis of any postoperative delayed wound healing, because this disease is simply distinguished from a postoperative wound.

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