Post-colectomy peristomal pyoderma gangrenosum
JCPSP-Journal of the College of Physicians and Surgeons Pakistan. 2005; 15 (2): 121-122
in English
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ABSTRACT
We report a patient with peristomal pyoderma gangrenosum which mimicked a necrotizing bacterial infection. It occurred as an extra-intestinal manifestation of chronic mucosal ulcerative colitis [MUC]. Initially misdiagnosed as a cutaneous infection, it finally responded to intravenous high dose corticosteroid therapy
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Index:
IMEMR (Eastern Mediterranean)
Main subject:
Postoperative Complications
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Surgical Wound Infection
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Colitis, Ulcerative
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Colectomy
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Diagnosis, Differential
Type of study:
Case report
Limits:
Female
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Humans
Language:
English
Journal:
J. Coll. Physicians Surg. Pak.
Year:
2005
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