title: Post-colectomy peristomal pyoderma gangrenosum.
abstract: We report a patient with peristomal pyoderma gangrenosum which mimicked a necrotizing bacterial infection. It occurred as an extra-intestinal manifestation of chronic mucosal ulcerative colitis (MUC). Initially misdiagnosed as a cutaneous infection, it finally responded to intravenous high dose corticosteroid therapy.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, The Aga Khan University, Karachi. turab.pishori@aku.edu
authors.forename: Turab
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Pishori
authors.forename: Abdul Haleem
authors.initials: AH
authors.lastname: Qureshi
mesh_terms: D003082:Colectomy; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000175:diagnosis*; D017511:Pyoderma Gangrenosum / Q000175:diagnosis*; D013530:Surgical Wound Infection / Q000175:diagnosis