title: Essential type II mixed cryoglobulinemia causing pyoderma gangrenosum-like ulcers.
abstract: A 47-year-old, otherwise healthy woman presented with multiple deep ulcers located primarily on her lower extremities that presented 6 days ago as blisters. A biopsy revealed livedoid vasculopathy, without any evidence of vasculitis. Extensive laboratory workup was positive only for type II cryoglobulins.
authors.affiliation: Dermatology Department, Wake-Forest University Baptist Medical Center, North Carolina, USA. namazi_mr@yahoo.com
authors.forename: M R
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Namazi
authors.forename: K R
authors.initials: KR
authors.lastname: Kerchner
authors.forename: R O
authors.initials: RO
authors.lastname: Pichardo
mesh_terms: D003449:Cryoglobulinemia / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D017511:Pyoderma Gangrenosum / Q000175:diagnosis*; D012883:Skin Ulcer / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology