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[This corrects the article DOI: 10.4103/ijdvl.IJDVL_260_17].
BACKGROUND
Neutrophilic dermatoses are a collection of diseases with varying presentation unified by clinical and histologic features. Neutrophilic dermatosis of the dorsal hands is a recently described clinical entity and an evolving disease concept. Its relationship to acute febrile neutrophilic
A 45-year-old man with the acute form of pyoderma gangrenosum is reported. He developed characteristic ulcers that rapidly followed violaceous erythema at sites of traumatic injury. The skin lesions repeatedly appeared six times within 7 years. Each time, the skin lesions were localized to sites of
This report describes a high school football player with an unusual ulcerative lesion on the upper leg that was treated initially as pyoderma gangrenosum, but later proved to be due to Sporothrix schenckii. His treatment with potassium iodide solution was complicated by the occurrence of subclinical
Although there have been substantial evidences on the usefulness of electrolytes for the diagnosis of disease, the evidences for a direct link between serum sodium and serum potassium in relation to a specific disease are very limited. This study was performed to investigate an association between
A 59-year-old Japanese man with pyoderma gangrenosum occurring at the unusual location of the ear lobe is herein reported. The patient was not associated with any other systemic diseases and had suffered from chilblains at the same site for ten years before the ulcer appeared. The ulcer followed the
One hundred five Staphylococcus aureus infections occurring in 79 children who were seen in a private office practice were evaluated for response to antibiotic therapy. The value of in vitro disk susceptibility testing in directing antibiotic selection in treatment failures was also examined. Of the
Potassium bromide is still in use for the treatment of multidrug-resistant seizures. It is a known cause of severe drug-induced skin disorders. The clinical presentation of bromoderma may be similar to that of pyoderma gangrenosum when occurring with a single lesion. The case of a young girl with a
This study analyzes the errors made by primary care physicians in handling skin disorders in patients seen prospectively over a 20-month period in a dermatologic practice. There were 319 errors in 260 patients. Eighty-eight percent of the errors were in diagnosis. There was a striking tendency to
Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) has many extraintestinal manifestations. Cutaneous manifestations are usually related to the activity of the bowel disease but may have an independent course. Anyone presenting with IBD should be examined for cutaneous manifestations. Pyoderma gangrenosum is a severe
Sweet syndrome, pyoderma gangrenosum, and subcorneal pustular dermatosis are neutrophilic dermatoses - conditions that have an inflammatory infiltrate consisting of mature polymorphonuclear leukocytes. The neutrophils are usually located within the dermis in Sweet syndrome and pyoderma gangrenosum;