A distinctive skin eruption following small-bowel by-pass surgery.
Crops of distinctive skin lesions appeared after jejuno-ileal by-pass surgery for morbid obesity in three patients. They consisted mainly of large numbers of macules on the extremities, of vague outline and with a tendency to central pustulation and necrosis. Severe arthralgia and myalgia preceded the skin lesions, which histologically showed a dense neutrophil leukocytic infiltrate, nuclear debris, and fibrin deposition around blood vessels in the dermis.
D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007082:Ileum / Q000601:surgery*; D007583:Jejunum / Q000601:surgery*; D008875:Middle Aged; D009765:Obesity / Q000628:therapy*; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000473:pathology*; D012867:Skin / Q000473:pathology; D012871:Skin Diseases / Q000473:pathology*