title: [Pseudo-septicemic pyoderma gangrenosum and breast cancer. Apropos of a case caused by an intramuscular injection].
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Service de Médecine C, CHJ Delanoue, Saumur.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Maigre
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Bouachour
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Varache
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Alquier
authors.forename: J L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Verret
mesh_terms: 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
vernacular_title: Pyoderma gangrenosum pseudo-septicémique et cancer du sein. A propos d'un cas déclenché par une injection intra-musculaire.