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Painless pyoderma gangrenosum: an insidious presentation complicating a sternal wound dehiscence

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    Ayad Harb & Mohammad Nassimizadeh

  2. University Hospital Coventry and Warwickshire, Coventry, UK

    Imtiaz Ahmed & Eltigani Eltigani

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Harb, A., Nassimizadeh, M., Ahmed, I. et al. Painless pyoderma gangrenosum: an insidious presentation complicating a sternal wound dehiscence. Eur J Plast Surg 38, 251–252 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00238-015-1063-8

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