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Pyogenic skin lesions accompanying chronic ulcerative colitis

Report of five cases

  • Clinical Medicine: Diseases Of Digestion
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The American Journal of Digestive Diseases

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Five cases of chronic idiopathic ulcerative colitis complicated by infection of the skin are presented. In all cases the skin infections occurred during the height of an exacerbation and in four of the five cases subsided together with the remission of the colitis. One case succumbed to the infection.

The possible mechanisms which play a part in the skin infections during the course of an idiopathic ulcerative colitis, are discussed. The skin lesions as encountered in this series as well as those in the literature are described. The treatment is outlined.

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    I. R. Jankelson M.D. & B. F. Massell M.D.

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Jankelson, I.R., Massell, B.F. Pyogenic skin lesions accompanying chronic ulcerative colitis. American Journal of Digestive Diseases and Nutrition 3, 19–22 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02999047

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