[Pseudo-septicemic pyoderma gangrenosum and breast cancer. Apropos of a case caused by an intramuscular injection].
We report a case of pyoderma gangrenosum (PG) mimicking a severe infectious skin disease in a woman with metastatic breast cancer. PG started at the site of an intramuscular injection administered a few days previously, and it subsequently extended. The skin disease was cured by high-dose corticosteroid therapy and clofazimine, but it marked a turn for the worst in the course of the breast cancer which became rapidly fatal.
Maigre
M
M
Service de Médecine C, CHJ Delanoue, Saumur.
Bouachour
G
G
Varache
N
N
Alquier
P
P
Verret
J L
JL
D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000150:complications*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D005734:Gangrene; D006801:Humans; D007273:Injections, Intramuscular / Q000009:adverse effects*; D008875:Middle Aged; D011711:Pyoderma / Q000209:etiology*; D018805:Sepsis / Q000175:diagnosis
Pyoderma gangrenosum pseudo-septicémique et cancer du sein. A propos d'un cas déclenché par une injection intra-musculaire.