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Accelerated healing of pyoderma gangrenosum in Behçet patient treated with cyclosporine and split thickness skin graft.

Abstract
Pyoderma gangrenosum is a dermatologic manifestation of systemic disease such as inflammatory bowel disease, monoclonal gammopathy, arthritis, malignancies, and Behçet's disease. Pyoderma gangrenosum can be stabilized with oral cyclosporine administration. After stabilization, it can be managed with debridement and skin graft.
AuthorsDeok-Woo Kim, Byung-Il Lee, Seung-Ha Park
JournalAnnals of plastic surgery (Ann Plast Surg) Vol. 61 Issue 5 Pg. 552-4 (Nov 2008) ISSN: 1536-3708 [Electronic] United States
PMID18948785 (Publication Type: Case Reports, Journal Article)
Chemical References
  • Antifungal Agents
  • Cyclosporine
Topics
  • Antifungal Agents (therapeutic use)
  • Behcet Syndrome (complications, drug therapy)
  • Combined Modality Therapy
  • Cyclosporine (therapeutic use)
  • Debridement
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Middle Aged
  • Pyoderma Gangrenosum (complications, drug therapy, surgery)
  • Skin Transplantation
  • Transplantation, Autologous
  • Wound Healing

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