JiHun Kim; Sung-Hoon Park; Seong-Kyu Kim; Jung-Yoon Choe

doi:10.4078/jkra.2009.16.1.64

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Kim, Park, Kim, and Choe: Infected Pyoderma Gangrenosum in Behçet's Disease

Original Article

J Korean Rheum Assoc 2009;16(1):64-66.

Published online: 20 March 2009

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4078/jkra.2009.16.1.64

Infected Pyoderma Gangrenosum in Behçet's Disease

JiHun Kim, Sung-Hoon Park, Seong-Kyu Kim, Jung-Yoon Choe

Department of Internal Medicine, Catholic University of Daegu, School of Medicine, Daegu, Korea

Received 12 January 2009 Accepted 12 March 2009

This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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Fig. 1.

The photography shows a necrotic, hemorrhagic, suppurative erosion with deep, greenish, irregularly undermined borders in the left lower extremity and a small punctated ulcer in the foot dorsum.

Fig. 2.

Biopsy of the left lower leg showed diffuse ulceration with necrotic material and exudates, and an infiltration of polymorphonuclear cells in the dermis with hyperchromatic fungal spore in the ulcer bed (arrow, H & E stain, ×100).

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