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29.07.2017 | CE - MEDICAL ILLUSTRATION
Pyoderma gangrenosum near a cystostomy catheter
verfasst von:
Michael Arthur Santos, Reza Manesh, Tonya Crook
Erschienen in:
Internal and Emergency Medicine
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Ausgabe 1/2018
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Excerpt
A 78-year-old man with chronic lymphocytic leukemia and neurogenic bladder with an indwelling suprapubic cystostomy presented with a small, painful lump surrounding his catheter site. The throbbing, lancinating pain started after a routine outpatient catheter exchange at his urologist’s office. He reported that the pustule spread in a centrifugal fashion, and degenerated into an ulcer. He was prescribed cephalexin for presumed cellulitis by his primary care doctor. …