Pyoderma vegetans and ulcerative colitis.
Pyoderma vegetans (PV) is a chronic, vegetating pustular disorder characterized clinically by erythematous vesiculopustular vegetating cutaneous plaques. Marked epidermal hyperplasia, intraepidermal and subepidermal neutrophilic microabscesses and a dermal inflammatory infiltrate are the prominent histopathological findings. We describe a patient with PV associated with ulcerative colitis and mammary Paget's disease. Pustular eruptions associated with ulcerative colitis are reviewed.
Bianchi
L
L
Institute of Dermatology, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Ospedale S.Eugenio, Piazzale dell'Umanesimo 10, 00144 Rome, Italy. Luca.Bianchi@uniroma2.it
Carrozzo
A M
AM
Orlandi
A
A
Campione
E
E
Hagman
J H
JH
Chimenti
S
S
D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000150:complications; D002908:Chronic Disease; D003093:Colitis, Ulcerative / Q000150:complications*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D010144:Paget's Disease, Mammary / Q000150:complications; D011711:Pyoderma / Q000209:etiology*