The adverse consequences of pyoderma gangrenosum in a 13 year old child

International Journal of Surgery Case Reports

Volumn 2, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 221-224

  Lambropoulos, Vassilis ^a   Patsatsi, Aikaterini ^a   Tsona, Afroditi ^b   Papakonstantinou, Antonios ^a   Filippopoulos, Antonios ^a   Sotiriadis, Dimitrios ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b PAPAGEORGIOU GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Pyoderma gangrenosum; Surgical debridement

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOSPORIN;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BIOPSY; BLOOD EXAMINATION; CASE REPORT; CELL CULTURE; DEBRIDEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INTENSIVE CARE; IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA; KERATINOCYTE; LEUKOCYTOSIS; MICROCYTIC ANEMIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYODERMA GANGRENOSUM; SKIN CULTURE; SKIN DEFECT; SPLIT THICKNESS SKIN GRAFT; SURGICAL INFECTION; WOUND DRESSING; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 80054936998     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22102612     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijscr.2011.04.005     Document Type: Article

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