pyoderma gangrenosum/カリウム

BACKGROUND Neutrophilic dermatoses are a collection of diseases with varying presentation unified by clinical and histologic features. Neutrophilic dermatosis of the dorsal hands is a recently described clinical entity and an evolving disease concept. Its relationship to acute febrile neutrophilic

A 45-year-old man with the acute form of pyoderma gangrenosum is reported. He developed characteristic ulcers that rapidly followed violaceous erythema at sites of traumatic injury. The skin lesions repeatedly appeared six times within 7 years. Each time, the skin lesions were localized to sites of

This report describes a high school football player with an unusual ulcerative lesion on the upper leg that was treated initially as pyoderma gangrenosum, but later proved to be due to Sporothrix schenckii. His treatment with potassium iodide solution was complicated by the occurrence of subclinical

A 59-year-old Japanese man with pyoderma gangrenosum occurring at the unusual location of the ear lobe is herein reported. The patient was not associated with any other systemic diseases and had suffered from chilblains at the same site for ten years before the ulcer appeared. The ulcer followed the

Potassium bromide is still in use for the treatment of multidrug-resistant seizures. It is a known cause of severe drug-induced skin disorders. The clinical presentation of bromoderma may be similar to that of pyoderma gangrenosum when occurring with a single lesion. The case of a young girl with a

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) has many extraintestinal manifestations. Cutaneous manifestations are usually related to the activity of the bowel disease but may have an independent course. Anyone presenting with IBD should be examined for cutaneous manifestations. Pyoderma gangrenosum is a severe

Sweet syndrome, pyoderma gangrenosum, and subcorneal pustular dermatosis are neutrophilic dermatoses - conditions that have an inflammatory infiltrate consisting of mature polymorphonuclear leukocytes. The neutrophils are usually located within the dermis in Sweet syndrome and pyoderma gangrenosum;