Leg ulcers form when skin on your leg breaks open. These breaks or sores let air and bacteria travel into your skin’s tissue. For most people, leg ulcers will heal on their own and won’t need medical ...

Leg ulcers are open wounds or unhealed sores that develop on the skin of the leg. A variety of conditions can cause a leg ulcer, including venous conditions, neuropathy, pressure, infections, and more ...

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 ...

Dear Dr. Roach: I am a 74-year-old woman who is in good health. I was diagnosed with pyoderma gangrenosum on my left leg and I was in a lot of pain. Can you tell me the cause of this rare disease?

An 80-year-old woman with advanced renal cell carcinoma with multiple pulmonary metastases presented to the Department of Dermatology after a 2-month history of a slowly enlarging, painful ulcer that ...