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 ...

It is thought to affect around one in 100,000 people in the UK and US. Pyoderma gangrenosum is believed to occur as a result of a pre-existing condition such as ulcerative colitis, Crohn's disease or ...

To the Editor: Weenig et al. (Oct. 31 issue) 1 stress the need for extensive investigations in cases of skin ulcers that are suggestive of pyoderma gangrenosum. However, their recommendation of ...

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 ...

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 ...