Corticosteroid-resistant pyoderma gangrenosum associated with Crohn's disease: Rapid cure with infliximab

Dermatology

Volumn 205, Issue 2-3, 2002, Pages 278-280

  Grange, Florent ^a   Djilali Bouzina, F ^a   Weiss, A M ^a   Polette, A ^a   Guillaume, J C ^a  

^a Pasteur Hospital   (France)

Author keywords

Crohn's disease; Infliximab; Pyoderma gangrenosum

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; INFLIXIMAB; PREDNISOLONE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CROHN DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG RESPONSE; FEMALE; HAND INFECTION; HEALING; HUMAN; LEG DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYODERMA GANGRENOSUM; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; CROHN DISEASE; DERMATOLOGIC AGENTS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEG; PYODERMA GANGRENOSUM;

EID: 0036974407     PISSN: 10188665     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000065860     Document Type: Article

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