Pyoderma Gangrenosum (3)

Question 1

What is it?

What’s it associated with?

What triggers it?

How is it differentiated from a simple skin ulcer?

How is it managed?

Answer 1

➊ Full-thickness, rapidly enlarging, painful ulcer with blue/purple undermined borders

➋ * IBD
* RA
* Leukaemia

➌ Injury to the skin

➍ Usually soon after surgery/skin injury, and grows very rapidly w/oedematous purple ridge, causing a lot of pain

➎ * Surgical debridement
* Abx
* Steroids