Leg ulcers form when skin on your leg breaks open. These breaks or sores let air and bacteria travel into your skin’s tissue. For most people, leg ulcers will heal on their own and won’t need medical ...

People who have an inflammatory bowel disease like ulcerative colitis often have problems caused by inflammation in other parts of their bodies. One of these is a skin condition called pyoderma ...

A 58-year-old woman presented to our emergency department with painful ulcers on the right side of her neck and on her left elbow. The ulcers, which had begun after minimal trauma, had increased in ...

Pyoderma gangrenosum was first described as an extraintestinal manifestation of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) by Brunsting and colleagues in 1930. 1 They described painful enlarging necrotic ulcers ...

A 2-point improvement in pain based on a numeric rating scale may indicate that patients are responding to treatment for pyoderma gangrenosum. To help determine whether a patient with pyoderma ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A minimal important difference of 7-day pain scores was a 2-point improvement on an 11-point scale. A 2-point ...

This page lists all known medications that could potentially lead to 'Pyoderma gangrenosum' as a side effect. It's important to note that mild side effects are quite common with medications. The ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patients with pyoderma gangrenosum are at greater risk of all-cause and cause-specific mortality compared with ...

It is thought to affect around one in 100,000 people in the UK and US. Pyoderma gangrenosum is believed to occur as a result of a pre-existing condition such as ulcerative colitis, Crohn's disease or ...

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A 39-year-old woman with a history of regional enteritis presented with an itchy rash on a tattoo on her left leg that she had received two weeks earlier (Figure 1A). We diagnosed allergic contact ...

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