[Pseudo-septicemic pyoderma gangrenosum and breast cancer. Apropos of a case caused by an intramuscular injection]

Rev Med Interne. 1991 Nov-Dec;12(6):452-4. doi: 10.1016/s0248-8663(05)83195-9.
[Article in French]

Abstract

We report a case of pyoderma gangrenosum (PG) mimicking a severe infectious skin disease in a woman with metastatic breast cancer. PG started at the site of an intramuscular injection administered a few days previously, and it subsequently extended. The skin disease was cured by high-dose corticosteroid therapy and clofazimine, but it marked a turn for the worst in the course of the breast cancer which became rapidly fatal.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • English Abstract
  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Breast Neoplasms / complications*
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Female
  • Gangrene
  • Humans
  • Injections, Intramuscular / adverse effects*
  • Middle Aged
  • Pyoderma / etiology*
  • Sepsis / diagnosis