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ADVANCES IN SKIN & WOUND CARE
Volume 36, Issue 10, Pages -Publisher
LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
DOI: 10.1097/ASW.0000000000000045
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complication; infection; postoperative; Pseudomonas aeruginosa; pyoderma gangrenosum; resection; ulcer
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Pyoderma gangrenosum (PG) is a rare inflammatory disease with unknown causes that affects the skin and mucous membranes. Postoperative development of PG is uncommon and can resemble infectious complications. Early detection and conservative treatment are crucial for patient recovery.
Pyoderma gangrenosum (PG) is a rare, noninfectious inflammatory disease of unknown etiology that affects the skin and mucous membranes. The development of PG after partial small bowel resection is very rare and can initially resemble an infectious complication, although it is an inflammatory disease. This report presents the case of a 55-year-old man who underwent partial small bowel resection for incomplete intestinal obstruction and developed postoperative infection-like manifestations, including redness and swelling of the incision, severe pain, and yellow-green turbid fluid from the drainage tube. After completing a skin biopsy that suggested massive neutrophil infiltration, multiple secretion cultures for Pseudomonas aeruginosa (+), and systemic screening without other comorbidities, a diagnosis of postoperative PG and P aeruginosa infection was determined. Early detection of this complication is essential for patient recovery because primary surgical treatment, which is contraindicated in such cases, can worsen PG. Therefore, PG should be treated conservatively with corticosteroids.
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