Patients with inflammatory bowel disease and pyoderma gangrenosum or erythema nodosum displayed distinct clinical and genetic characteristics that may indicate shared etiologies in a recent study.

People who have an inflammatory bowel disease like ulcerative colitis often have problems caused by inflammation in other parts of their bodies. One of these is a skin condition called pyoderma ...

Pyoderma gangrenosum was first described as an extraintestinal manifestation of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) by Brunsting and colleagues in 1930. 1 They described painful enlarging necrotic ulcers ...

Up to 40% of IBD patients may experience EIMs, with higher risks in Crohn disease and specific disease locations. Five key risk factors for EIMs include disease type, sex, ocular manifestations, ...