Our 36-year-old daughter-in-law is suffering from very painful pyoderma gangrenosum. Her latest outbreak followed a mosquito bite in September, and she is being treated as an outpatient. She also ...

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 ...

Pyoderma gangrenosum is a diagnosis of exclusion, and the misdiagnosis of pyoderma gangrenosum can result in substantial complications in patients who have other causes of severe cutaneous ulceration.

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 5-year-old boy presented with painful skin ulcerations with a red base and purple border. Biopsy samples showed a dense neutrophilic infiltrate; tissue cultures were negative.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . There are few medications dermatologists can prescribe for pyoderma gangrenosum, a complex wound disease.

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 ...

An 80-year-old woman with advanced renal cell carcinoma with multiple pulmonary metastases presented to the Department of Dermatology after a 2-month history of a slowly enlarging, painful ulcer that ...

A 59-year-old woman with systemic lupus erythematosus presented with a 1-month history of an enlarging, exquisitely painful ulcer on her left calf (Figure 1). She reported that it had occurred ...