Pyoderma vegetans and ulcerative colitis

L Bianchi; A M Carrozzo; A Orlandi; E Campione; J H Hagman; S Chimenti

doi:10.1046/j.1365-2133.2001.04237.x

Pyoderma vegetans and ulcerative colitis

Br J Dermatol. 2001 Jun;144(6):1224-7. doi: 10.1046/j.1365-2133.2001.04237.x.

Authors

L Bianchi¹, A M Carrozzo, A Orlandi, E Campione, J H Hagman, S Chimenti

Affiliation

¹ Institute of Dermatology, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Ospedale S.Eugenio, Piazzale dell'Umanesimo 10, 00144 Rome, Italy. [email protected]

PMID: 11422046
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2133.2001.04237.x

Abstract

Pyoderma vegetans (PV) is a chronic, vegetating pustular disorder characterized clinically by erythematous vesiculopustular vegetating cutaneous plaques. Marked epidermal hyperplasia, intraepidermal and subepidermal neutrophilic microabscesses and a dermal inflammatory infiltrate are the prominent histopathological findings. We describe a patient with PV associated with ulcerative colitis and mammary Paget's disease. Pustular eruptions associated with ulcerative colitis are reviewed.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Breast Neoplasms / complications
Chronic Disease
Colitis, Ulcerative / complications*
Female
Humans
Middle Aged
Paget's Disease, Mammary / complications
Pyoderma / etiology*