Classic pyoderma gangrenosum

Marcella Prete; Vito Racanelli; Patrizia Leone; Elvira Favoino; Federico Perosa

doi:10.1002/ccr3.8446

Clinical Case Reports (Feb 2024)

Classic pyoderma gangrenosum

Marcella Prete,
Vito Racanelli,
Patrizia Leone,
Elvira Favoino,
Federico Perosa

Affiliations

Marcella Prete: Internal Medicine Unit, Department of Interdisciplinary Medicine University of Bari Medical School Bari Italy
Vito Racanelli: Centre for Medical Sciences, CISMed, Department of Internal Medicine Santa Chiara Hospital, University of Trento Trento Italy
Patrizia Leone: Internal Medicine Unit, Department of Interdisciplinary Medicine University of Bari Medical School Bari Italy
Elvira Favoino: Rheumatic and Systemic Autoimmune Diseases Unit, Department of Interdisciplinary Medicine University of Bari Medical School Bari Italy
Federico Perosa: Rheumatic and Systemic Autoimmune Diseases Unit, Department of Interdisciplinary Medicine University of Bari Medical School Bari Italy

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.8446
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 12, no. 2
pp. n/a – n/a

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Key Clinical Message Pyoderma gangrenosum is a rare inflammatory ulcerative skin disease of unknown etiology. We report an image of a patient with pyoderma gangrenosum who presented right leg ulcers with violaceous margins, histologically characterized by mono‐ and polynuclear cell infiltrates. The patient was successfully treated with cyclosporin A.

Published in Clinical Case Reports

ISSN: 2050-0904 (Online)
Publisher: Wiley
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Medicine: Medicine (General)
Website: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)2050-0904

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