Pyoderma gangrenosum manifesting as a cavitating lung lesion

Clinical and Experimental Dermatology

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 418-421

  Field, S ^a,b   Powell, F C ^b   Young, V ^a   Barnes, L ^a,b  

^a ST JAMES S HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

^b MATER MISERICORDIAE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; IMMUNOMODULATING AGENT; INFLIXIMAB; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; NEUTROPHIL CYTOPLASMIC ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACK; BRONCHOSCOPY; CANCER STAGING; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC INFLAMMATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYTOPLASM; DIARRHEA; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; GIANT CELL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LOBAR PNEUMONIA; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG LESION; LUNG LOBECTOMY; LUNG SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; MEDIASTINOSCOPY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYODERMA GANGRENOSUM; RECTOSCOPY; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN ULCER; SLEEVE RESECTION; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL WOUND; SYSTEMIC THERAPY; THORACOTOMY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THORAX WALL RECONSTRUCTION; ULCERATIVE COLITIS; WEGENER GRANULOMATOSIS;

BIOPSY; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; LUNG DISEASES; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MIDDLE AGED; PROCTITIS; PYODERMA GANGRENOSUM; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 45149092658     PISSN: 03076938     EISSN: 13652230     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2230.2008.02756.x     Document Type: Article

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