Recurrent pyoderma gangrenosum precipitated by breast cancer: A case report and review of the literature

Journal of Medical Case Reports

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Duchnowska, Renata ^a   Ziajka, Ewa ^a   Góralska, Agnieszka ^a   Grala, Bartłomiej ^a  

^a MILITARY INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE   (Poland)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Pyoderma gangrenosum; Skin ulceration

Indexed keywords

CHLORAMPHENICOL; CYCLOSPORIN; DAPSONE; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; LETROZOLE; PERMANGANATE POTASSIUM; PREDNISONE; SALAZOSULFAPYRIDINE;

AGED; ANEMIA; BIOPSY; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER CELL; CANCER HORMONE THERAPY; CASE REPORT; CAUCASIAN; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR POSITIVE BREAST CANCER; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INFLAMMATORY INFILTRATE; LEG; LEG ULCER; NEPHROTOXICITY; NEUTROPHIL; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PYODERMA GANGRENOSUM; RECURRENT INFECTION; REVIEW; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SCAR FORMATION; SKIN BIOPSY; SOCIAL ASPECT; TREATMENT RESPONSE; ULCER HEALING; BREAST TUMOR; COMPLICATION; PAGET NIPPLE DISEASE; RECURRENT DISEASE;

AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, DUCTAL, BREAST; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEG ULCER; PYODERMA GANGRENOSUM; RECURRENCE;

EID: 84902936678     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17521947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1752-1947-8-226     Document Type: Review

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