Pyoderma gangrenosum with severe systemic features, after augmentation mammoplasty

• Main Authors: Marine Beeckman (Author), Caroline Peeters (Author), Maude Coyette (Author), Liliane Marot (Author), Halil Yildiz (Author), Benoit Lengele (Author), Marie Baeck (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Wiley, 2024-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract We report a rare life‐threatening presentation of postsurgical pyoderma gangrenosum (PG) after augmentation mammoplasty in a 32‐year‐old woman. Six days after surgery, the patient presented with fever and erythema at surgical wounds. In view of a suspected postsurgical infection, the patien...