Pyoderma vegetans and ulcerative colitis

Br J Dermatol. 2001 Jun;144(6):1224-7. doi: 10.1046/j.1365-2133.2001.04237.x.

Abstract

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.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Breast Neoplasms / complications
  • Chronic Disease
  • Colitis, Ulcerative / complications*
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Middle Aged
  • Paget's Disease, Mammary / complications
  • Pyoderma / etiology*