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Postoperative wound breakdown caused by pyoderma gangrenosum after bilateral simultaneous total knee arthroplasty
Farukh Wadia1, Mohammad Hammad A Malik, Matyn L Porter
1Centre for Hip Surgery, Wrightington Hospital, Hall Lane, Wigan.
The Journal of Arthroplasty
|December 15, 2007
Abstract:
Pyoderma gangrenosum is a noninfective necrosis of dermal tissues. Rarely, it occurs after surgery or trauma. However, lack of awareness and its striking similarity to a clinical picture of sepsis usually delay diagnosis and initiation of the correct management. We describe a unique case of its occurrence in both surgical wounds after bilateral total knee arthroplasty and discuss the differential diagnoses and management.
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