Yasuyuki Yamaguchi, Teruki Yanagi, Kazumasa Sato, Norihiro Yoshimoto, Yu Hirata, Inkin Ujiie, Machiko Nishimura, Ken Natsuga, Chihiro Shiiya, Ichiro Tsukinaga, Hiroshi Shimizu
Pyoderma gangrenosum is a chronic non-infectious neutrophilic dermatosis that causes undermining ulcers. Topical therapies for the deep ulcers of pyoderma gangrenosum have not been established. To investigate whether negative-pressure wound therapy is effective for a pyoderma gangrenosum ulcer, we used the PICO single use negative-pressure wound therapy system (Smith & Nephew, London, UK) for two pyoderma gangrenosum patients. In these cases, the ulcers decreased in size and necrolytic tissue was removed notably...
December 13, 2017: Journal of Dermatology