Metastatic Crohn's disease of thigh and forearm.
Cutaneous involvement with Crohn's disease at a site separated from the gastrointestinal tract by normal skin is termed metastatic Crohn's disease. Such a complication is extremely rare and previous reports have emphasised the flexural distribution of the ulcerated lesions. We report a patient who developed Crohn's disease involving the skin of the thigh and forearm several months after a panproctocolectomy for colorectal Crohn's disease.
D000368:Aged; D003424:Crohn Disease / Q000150:complications*; D005542:Forearm; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012871:Skin Diseases / Q000209:etiology*; D012883:Skin Ulcer / Q000150:complications; D013848:Thigh