Facial Pyoderma Gangrenosum in Senescence

• Main Authors: Dorothea Kratzsch (Author), Mirjana Ziemer (Author), Linda Milkova (Author), Justinus A. Wagner (Author), Jan C. Simon (Author), Michael Kendler (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Karger Publishers, 2013-10-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Clinically, pyoderma gangrenosum (PG) is characterized by a rapidly progressive, painful cutaneous ulcer with an irregular, violaceous and undermined border. PG occurs most frequently on the lower extremities and the trunk of middle-aged individuals. The face is only very rarely affected. We present...