Pyodermatitis-pyostomatitis vegetans associated with ulcerative colitis: Successful treatment with total colectomy and topical tacrolimus

Dermatology

Volumn 217, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 146-148

  Yasuda, Masahito ^a   Amano, Hiroo ^a   Nagai, Yayoi ^a   Tamura, Atsushi ^a   Ishikawa, Osamu ^a   Yamaguchi, Satoru ^a  

^a GUNMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Pyodermatitis pyostomatitis vegetans; Topical tacrolimus; Total colectomy; Ulcerative colitis

Indexed keywords

BETAMETHASONE VALERATE; PREDNISOLONE; TACROLIMUS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLON CANCER; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; EROSION; ERYTHEMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; OINTMENT; PRIMARY SCLEROSING CHOLANGITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUSTULE; PYODERMA; PYODERMATITIS PYOSTOMATITIS VEGETANS; SKIN BIOPSY; SYMPTOM; ULCERATIVE COLITIS;

ADMINISTRATION, TOPICAL; ADULT; COLECTOMY; COLITIS, ULCERATIVE; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; MALE; PYODERMA; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STOMATITIS; TACROLIMUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 49649113655     PISSN: 10188665     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000135708     Document Type: Article

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