Leg ulcers form when skin on your leg breaks open. These breaks or sores let air and bacteria travel into your skin’s tissue. For most people, leg ulcers will heal on their own and won’t need medical ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A minimal important difference of 7-day pain scores was a 2-point improvement on an 11-point scale. A 2-point ...

Pyoderma gangrenosum was first described as an extraintestinal manifestation of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) by Brunsting and colleagues in 1930. 1 They described painful enlarging necrotic ulcers ...

A 58-year-old woman presented to our emergency department with painful ulcers on the right side of her neck and on her left elbow. The ulcers, which had begun after minimal trauma, had increased in ...

Pyoderma gangrenosum is a diagnosis of exclusion, and the misdiagnosis of pyoderma gangrenosum can result in substantial complications in patients who have other causes of severe cutaneous ulceration.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patients with pyoderma gangrenosum are at greater risk of all-cause and cause-specific mortality compared with ...

SPOKANE, Wash. – Ryan Becker, a Spokane resident, is battling an extremely rare skin condition known as pyoderma gangrenosum. After visits to the Mayo Clinic and Johns Hopkins, Becker has been ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

A 59-year-old woman with systemic lupus erythematosus presented with a 1-month history of an enlarging, exquisitely painful ulcer on her left calf (Figure 1). She reported that it had occurred ...

A systematic review of 63 cases found that pyoderma gangrenosum (PG) during pregnancy or postpartum was often misdiagnosed, delaying treatment and leading to inappropriate interventions. Researchers ...

In a recently published systematic review, researchers determined that VEXAS (vacuoles, E1 enzyme, X-linked, autoinflammatory, somatic) syndrome typically presents in men, with atypical morphology and ...