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01-03-2014 | Case Report
A report of two patients with a history of pyoderma gangrenosum where total knee arthroplasty was performed under prophylactic immunosuppression
Authors:
Daniel S. Hill, Soulat Naim, Andrew M. Watts, Marina Morgan, Chris Bower, Andrew D. Toms
Published in:
European Orthopaedics and Traumatology
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Issue 1/2014
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Excerpt
Pyoderma gangrenosum (PG) is a rare relapsing autoimmune inflammatory disorder resulting in skin necrosis and ulceration. It can be idiopathic or associated with other conditions. Sterile pustular lesions can occur 24–48 h following cutaneous trauma in up to 30 % of patients with PG. Blobnet first described this process in 1937 that he termed pathergy [
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