Leukocytoclastic Vasculitis in an Adolescent with Ulcerative Colitis: Report of a Case and Review of the Literature

Overview

Journal SAGE Open Med Case Rep

Publisher Sage Publications

Specialty General Medicine

Date 2016 Aug 5

PMID 27489650

Citations 9

Authors

G Tyler Butts

Phyllis R Bishop

Julie P Wyatt

Michael J Nowicki

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Abstract

An adolescent female with long-standing, difficult-to-control ulcerative colitis developed leukocytoclastic vasculitis, a rare cutaneous extra-intestinal manifestation of the inflammatory bowel disease. The authors provide a literature review on leukocytoclastic vasculitis complicating ulcerative colitis. Furthermore, the clinical features of leukocytoclastic vasculitis are compared and contrasted with the more common cutaneous extra-intestinal manifestations of inflammatory bowel disease, erythema nodosum, and pyoderma gangrenosum.

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