Pyoderma gangrenosum misdiagnosis resulting in amputation: A review

J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2019 Feb;86(2):307-313. doi: 10.1097/TA.0000000000002096.

Authors

Carter K Haag¹, Fnu Nutan, John W Cyrus, Jibanananda Satpathy, Kanade Shinkai, Alex G Ortega Loayza

Affiliation

¹ From the Department of Dermatology (C.K.H., A.G.O.L.), Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon; Department of Hospital Medicine (F.N.), Tompkins-McCaw Library for the Health Sciences (J.W.C.), Department of Adult Reconstruction and Orthopedic Trauma (J.S.), Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia; and Department of Dermatology (K.S.), University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California.

PMID: 30358767
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0000000000002096

No abstract available

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Adult
Aged
Amputation, Surgical / statistics & numerical data*
Diagnostic Errors / statistics & numerical data*
Enterobacter / isolation & purification
Female
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Pyoderma Gangrenosum* / diagnosis
Pyoderma Gangrenosum* / microbiology
Pyoderma Gangrenosum* / surgery
Staphylococcus / isolation & purification