Symmetrical, painful ulceration of the lower limbs in a vascular surgery ward: A diagnostic challenge. Pyoderma gangrenosum associated with IgG-κ paraproteinaemia

Netherlands Journal of Medicine

Volumn 62, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 168-171

  Simsek, S ^a   van den Haak, R F F ^a   Voskuyl, A E ^a   Rauwerda, J A ^a   van Schijndel, R J M Strack ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA2B INTERFERON; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; IMMUNOGLOBULIN KAPPA CHAIN;

ADULT; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTERY BYPASS; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE EXACERBATION; HUMAN; LEG ISCHEMIA; LEG ULCER; MALE; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; PAIN; PARAPROTEINEMIA; PYODERMA GANGRENOSUM; SKIN BIOPSY; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; VASCULAR SURGERY;

CHRONIC DISEASE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN KAPPA-CHAINS; LEG ULCER; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARAPROTEINEMIAS; PYODERMA GANGRENOSUM;

EID: 4143087046     PISSN: 03002977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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