[A woman with painful ulcera on her lower leg]

Ned Tijdschr Geneeskd. 2015:159:A8783.
[Article in Dutch]

Abstract

A 49-year-old woman presented with painful ulcera on her right lower leg. She was known with Crohn's disease. Wound cultures were negative. Based on clinical findings she was diagnosed with pyoderma gangrenosum. After treatment with topical glucocorticoids and intravenous infliximab and ciclosporin, the ulcera gradually disappeared.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Crohn Disease / complications*
  • Cyclosporine / therapeutic use
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Female
  • Glucocorticoids / therapeutic use*
  • Humans
  • Infliximab / therapeutic use*
  • Leg
  • Leg Ulcer / diagnosis*
  • Leg Ulcer / drug therapy
  • Leg Ulcer / etiology
  • Middle Aged
  • Pyoderma Gangrenosum / diagnosis*
  • Pyoderma Gangrenosum / drug therapy
  • Pyoderma Gangrenosum / etiology

Substances

  • Glucocorticoids
  • Cyclosporine
  • Infliximab