A favourable response to surgical intervention and hyperbaric oxygen therapy in pyoderma gangrenosum.
Pyoderma gangrenosum (PG) is a neutrophilic dermatosis characterised with ulcerations. Inflammatory bowel diseases (ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease) and haematologic diseases (leukaemia, preleukaemia and monoclonal gammopathy) have been reported in about 40-50% of PG patients in whom the trea...
| Published in: | International Wound Journal Vol. 11; no. 4; pp. 350 - 354 |
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| Main Authors: | , , , |
| Format: | case study pictorial Journal Article |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Aug2014
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| Online Access: | View this record in EBSCOhost |
| Summary: | Pyoderma gangrenosum (PG) is a neutrophilic dermatosis characterised with ulcerations. Inflammatory bowel diseases (ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease) and haematologic diseases (leukaemia, preleukaemia and monoclonal gammopathy) have been reported in about 40-50% of PG patients in whom the treatment of the underlying disease is important for the improvement of the lesions. We herein report a colorectal adenocarcinoma patient with PG, who responded partially to topical treatments and systemic immunosuppressants and healed completely with the aid of surgical wound repair and hyperbaric oxygen therapy. |
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