The great imitator with no diagnostic test: pyoderma gangrenosum.
Pyoderma gangrenosum is a rare, neutrophil‐mediated, auto‐inflammatory dermatosis that wound care specialists must be prepared to recognise. This condition has clinical features analogous to infectious processes. There is no specific diagnostic test and the diagnosis is usually obtained from exclusi...
| Publicado en: | International Wound Journal Vol. 17; no. 6; pp. 1774 - 1783 |
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| Formato: | pictorial review tables/charts Journal Article |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Dec2020
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