Skin Ulcer: Causes & Reasons

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Possible Causes for Skin Ulcer

Pressure Ulcer

Skin dryness may be less important for sacral pressure ulcers. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

As a result, those skin cells don’t get the oxygen and nutrients they need to survive, and a pressure ulcer may result. [oxfordhealthcare.net]

Malignant degeneration (Marjolin's ulcer) in chronic pressure ulcers and other chronic skin ulcerations may become more widespread as the life span of spinal cord injured [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Diabetic Foot Ulcer

Keratinocytes and dermal endothelial cells, excluding leukocytes that infiltrate wounds, are the main source of soluble factors regulating healing of skin ulcers. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Ulcers usually begin with small abrasions which deepen. However, some ulcers begin with undermined skin which breaks down. [foothyperbook.com]

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Varicose Ulcer

Topic Overview What is a venous skin ulcer? A skin ulcer is a type of wound that develops on the skin. [northshore.org]

Usually, all it takes is a quick examination of the sore and the skin around it to figure out whether you have a venous skin ulcer. [webmd.com]

Compression Compression therapy is the main treatment for venous skin ulcers. [cigna.com]

Venous Stasis Ulcer

Topic Overview What is a venous skin ulcer? A skin ulcer is a type of wound that develops on the skin. [northshore.org]

Usually, all it takes is a quick examination of the sore and the skin around it to figure out whether you have a venous skin ulcer. [webmd.com]

Venous skin ulcers are slow to heal and often come back if you don't take steps to prevent them. A venous skin ulcer is also called a stasis leg ulcer. [northshore.org]

Tropical Phagedenic Ulcer

Tropical Skin Ulcers : Global Status Overview - Tropical Skin Ulcers: Global Status is one in a series of GIDEON ebooks which summarize the status of individual infectious [booksamillion.com]

References Tropical Skin Ulcers: Global Status includes separate sections on Mycobacteriosis – M. ulcerans, and Tropical phagedenic ulcer. [gideononline.com]

More About Tropical Skin Ulcers by Stephen Berger, MD Overview Tropical Skin Ulcers: Global Status is one in a series of GIDEON ebooks which summarize the status of individual [booksamillion.com]

Hypertensive Ischemic Ulcer

skin breakdown Atherosclerotic ischemic ulcer of foot Atherosclerotic ischemic ulcer of foot limited to skin layer Atherosclerotic ischemic ulcer of foot with bone necrosis [icd10data.com]

Sometimes ulcers are accompanied by inflammation of the skin, rashes, redness, discoloration or dry, scaly skin. [heart.templehealth.org]

Adv Skin Wound Care 2011; 24: 415–36. 18. Dagregorio G, Guillet G. A retrospective review of 20 hypertensive leg ulcers treated with mesh skin grafts. [journals.lww.com]

Pyoderma Gangrenosum

Ninety-five patients (49 from our institution and 46 described in the literature) had skin ulcers with a clinical resemblance to pyoderma gangrenosum. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Interleukin-8 overexpression is present in pyoderma gangrenosum ulcers and leads to ulcer formation in human skin xenografts. Lab Invest 2000 ;80: 595 - 604 45. [doi.org]

Results Ninety-five patients (49 from our institution and 46 described in the literature) had skin ulcers with a clinical resemblance to pyoderma gangrenosum. [doi.org]

Limited Cutaneous Systemic Scleroderma

Large or painful calcium deposits sometimes need to be surgically removed, and amputation of fingertips may be necessary if the skin ulcers progress to gangrene.[5] One or [rarediseases.info.nih.gov]

ulcers, while topical lidocaine helps reduce pain of the finger's ulcers in people with systemic scleroderma.[6][7] There are also some lifestyle changes and home remedies [rarediseases.info.nih.gov]

so it is recommended to have an early assessment and treatment..[4] For pain management, studies have shown that oxycodone is effective and safe for pain due to severe skin [rarediseases.info.nih.gov]

Behçet Disease

It's classic sign is recurring ulcers in the mouth, but in order to make a definitive diagnosis, it must be accompanied by two of four other symptoms: Genital ulcers Skin [house.wikia.com]

Diagnosis is instead based on the recurrence of symptoms including oral ulcers, genital ulcers, skin lesions and ocular lesions. [kashilab.com]

Symptoms include areas of abnormal skin changes (ulcers or lesions) of the mouth and genitalia that tend to recur spontaneously. [dermis.net]

Vasculitis

Behçet’s Skin ulcer Behcets rash Skin lesion Lip ulcer Lip ulcer Mouth ulcer Central Nervous System Vasculitis Primary cerebral vasculitis Churg Strauss Syndrome (EPGA) Skin [vasculitis.org.uk]

This condition can lead to pain, thin and shiny skin, skin ulcers, and gangrene, which is when body tissue dies due to infection or reduced blood flow. [nyulangone.org]

A person may also experience: numbness in the limbs tingling in the limbs fingers, toes, hands, and feet turn white in the cold skin ulcerations gangrene of fingers and toes [medicalnewstoday.com]

Buruli Ulcer

Buruli ulcer (BU) is caused by Mycobacterium ulcerans and can manifest as a simple nodule or as aggressive skin ulcers leading to debilitating osteoarthritis or limb deformity [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

The neglected tropical disease Buruli ulcer (BU) caused by Mycobacterium ulcerans is an infection of the subcutaneous tissue leading to chronic ulcerative skin lesions. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

[…] report any suspected skin lesions even after healing, and the need for a good prevention strategy in Buruli Ulcer endemic areas. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Malignant Neoplasm of the Skin

Abstract We describe two case reports to assess the efficacy of a new method suitable to close small-sized pressure ulcers and cancer-related skin lesions. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Often this cancer appears as a firm red bump or ulceration of the skin that does not heal. Squamous cell carcinomas can spread to lymph nodes in the area. [enthealth.org]

It can occur on the skin of scars, sores, ulcers and burns. [cancer.ca]

Lupus Vulgaris

Skin biopsy from the edge of ulcer was also suggestive of tuberculosis. Patient is doing well on antituberculous drugs. [lungindia.com]

It is the most common Mycobacterium tuberculosis skin infection.[3] The lesions may ultimately develop into disfiguring skin ulcers if left untreated. [en.wikipedia.org]

Lupus vulgaris skin lesions are of five types - a) plaque b) ulcerative or mutilating c) vegetating d) tumour-like e) papulonodular. [lungindia.com]

Tularemia

A skin ulcer develops at the site of infection. [columbia-lyme.org]

He presented with a digital skin ulcer and enlarged lymph nodes. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Signs and Symptoms Skin ulcer of tularemia. Photo courtesy of the CDC Public Health Image Library/Emory University, Dr. Sellars. [columbia-lyme.org]

Cutaneous Atypical Mycobacterial Infection

NTM infections can occur in well children and include lymphadenitis, skin ulcers, and rarely otomastoiditis and posttraumatic soft-tissue or bone infections. [pedsinreview.aappublications.org]

Definition / general Skin disorders (ulcerations, abscesses, rheumatoid-like nodules, histiocytic reactions, panniculitis), most commonly due to M. kansasii, M. marinum, M [pathologyoutlines.com]

ulcerated, ulcerating, ulceration, ulcerative skin (atrophic) (chronic) (neurogenic) (non-healing) (perforating) (pyogenic) (trophic) (tropical) L98.499 ICD-10-CM Diagnosis [icd10data.com]

Leishmaniasis

Symptoms include mainly disfiguring skin ulcers or nodules. Uncommonly, chronic fever and weight loss occur. [tripprep.com]

Cutaneous leishmaniasis Cutaneous leishmaniasis causes ulcers on your skin. It’s the most common form of leishmaniasis. [healthline.com]

Mucosal leishmaniasis may develop after the original skin ulcers of some forms of cutaneous leishmaniasis have been treated or have healed. [tripprep.com]

Yaws

METHODS: We performed repeated clinical surveys for active yaws, serologic surveys for latent yaws, and molecular analyses to determine the cause of skin ulcers and identify [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Additional benefit would be derived if other common causes of ulcerative skin disease in children could be addressed in parallel. [rstmh.org]

Ulcers caused by Haemophilus ducreyi is an important cause of skin ulcers (2) (mostly on the legs) which clinically mimic the ulcerative form of yaws complicates clinical [who.int]

Chancroid

This report adds further evidence that cutaneous chancroid should be considered in the evaluation of skin ulcers in the south Pacific. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Haemophilus ducreyi as a cause of skin ulcers in children from a yaws-endemic area of Papua New Guinea: a prospective cohort study. [doi.org]

Chancroid is infection of the genital skin or mucous membranes caused by Haemophilus ducreyi and characterized by papules, painful ulcers, and enlargement of the inguinal [msdmanuals.com]

Cutaneous Diphtheria

Pneumonia, endocarditis and septicemia are the most common complications, whereas skin infections (slowly progressive painful skin ulcers), meningitis or central venous catheter [karger.com]

The case presented with a skin ulcer on her toe. Toxigenic Corynebacterium diphtheriae was isolated from a swab of the lesion. The case was treated with antibiotics. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

The man had been in Mozambique since autumn 2013 and had experienced persistent skin ulcer infections. His was in good general health. [eurosurveillance.org]

Brown Recluse Spider Bite

ulcers (necrotic arachnidism). [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

ulceration in about 20% of cases (only North American spider bite frequently associated with necrotic skin lesions) —No deaths Pyoderma gangrenosum as a result of bite has [clinicaladvisor.com]

Because ulceration can spread and tissue death can occur, skin that becomes necrotized in response to brown recluse venom may need to be removed through surgery. [livestrong.com]

Urban Cutaneous Leishmaniasis

Known locally as uta L. guyanensis The Guyana, Brazil Single skin ulcers, but lymphatic spread may result in widespread ulceration. Known locally as pian bois. [web.stanford.edu]

Also multiple sores may form The skin lesions then become nodules, and the nodules develop and ulcerate The skin turns black in color Persistent rashes can be found in the [dovemed.com]

The frequency of old-world cutaneous leishmaniasis in skin ulcers in Peshawar. J Ayub Med Coll Abbottabad 2009;21(3):72-5. 2. Alrajhi AA. [cehjournal.org]

Mucocutaneous Leishmaniasis

Whether through medical treatment or through spontaneous resolution, skin ulcerations generally result in disfiguring scars with significant social and economic impact. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Four patients presented with large skin ulcers, and 9 had mucosal involvement as the main manifestation, the latter affecting the nose (3 cases), nose and septum (2 cases) [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

scaly skin, gray, dark, ashen hair, thinning Cutaneous leishmaniasis Symptoms on the skin include: macule or papule, erythematous skin ulcer, forms at site of original lesion [the-travel-doctor.com]

Polyarteritis Nodosa

Other features include livedo reticularis, skin ulcers and tender indurated plaques. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

The diagnosis should be considered in patients with various combinations of symptoms, such as unexplained fever, arthralgia, subcutaneous nodules, skin ulcers, pain in the [msdmanuals.com]

Cutaneous: Livedo reticularis, skin ulcers, tender erythematous nodules, bullous or vesicular eruptions, infarction and gangrene of fingers or toes, or a combination may occur [msdmanuals.com]

Granuloma Inguinale

The doctor obtains a tissue sample either by cutting a piece of tissue from the edge of an skin ulcer with a scalpel or by taking a punch biopsy. [encyclopedia.com]

In the second stage, the bacteria erode the skin to form shallow, foul-smelling ulcers which spread from the genital and anal areas to the thighs and lower abdomen. [encyclopedia.com]

In addition, the doctor will need to distinguish between granuloma inguinale and certain types of skin cancer, amebiasis, fungal infections, and other bacterial ulcers. [encyclopedia.com]

Mycobacterium Marinum Skin Granuloma

Definition / general Skin disorders (ulcerations, abscesses, rheumatoid-like nodules, histiocytic reactions, panniculitis), most commonly due to M. kansasii, M. marinum, M [pathologyoutlines.com]

ulcerated, ulcerating, ulceration, ulcerative skin (atrophic) (chronic) (neurogenic) (non-healing) (perforating) (pyogenic) (trophic) (tropical) L98.499 ICD-10-CM Diagnosis [icd10data.com]

Over one to two months the nodule may break down to form a shallow ulcer that spreads rapidly and may involve up to 15% of the patient's skin surface Ulceration and necrosis [dermnetnz.org]

Systemic Scleroderma

ulcer Open skin sore 0200042 Telangiectasia of the skin 0100585 Xerostomia Dry mouth Dry mouth syndrome Reduced salivation [ more ] 0000217 5%-29% of people have these symptoms [rarediseases.info.nih.gov]

Excessive calcium deposition in the skin (calcinosis) Joint contractures (rigidity) Tight, mask-like facial skin Ulcerations on the fingertips and toes Pain and stiffness [my.clevelandclinic.org]

These include: Skin: dressings and antibiotic medicines are used for skin ulcers. Surgery may help with tight skin, nodules or ulcers. [patient.info]

Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis

Ulcerations with undermined, raised erythematous-violaceous border resembling pyoderma gangrenosum (PG) have rarely been reported as skin involvement in GPA. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

[…] symptoms with formation of skin ulcers, skin rash and skin nodules which are often painful Presence of blood and protein in urine on urine analysis Nerve symptoms causing [dovemed.com]

The diagnosis of GPA had been made by symptoms of multiple lung nodule, otitis media, sinusitis, skin ulcer, and periocular granuloma 20 years ago. [surgicalcasereports.springeropen.com]

Endemic Syphilis

Clinical findings, late Lesions mimic tertiary syphilis—e.g., gumma of the nose and soft palate, bony deformities, nodular skin ulcers. [medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com]

Yaws skin ulcers are often circular, with granulating tissue in the center and raised margins. [news-medical.net]

Other symptoms may include swollen glands or lymph nodes (lymph-adenopathy), and/or skin ulcerations under the arms or around the rectum and groin. [rarediseases.org]

Diffuse Cutaneous Systemic Scleroderma

There also can be: Skin ulcers Skin that is lighter or darker than usual Loss of hair Abnormal skin dryness, including vaginal dryness Calcium deposits in the skin (subcutaneous [drugs.com]

Sporotrichosis

[…] lumps or skin ulcers that do not go away. [nlm.nih.gov]

[…] infection ( meningitis ) Widespread (disseminated) disease When to Contact a Medical Professional Make an appointment with your health care provider if you develop persistent skin [ufhealth.org]

Small ulcers appear as lines on the skin as the infection moves up an arm or leg. These sores do not heal unless they are treated, and they may last for years. [nlm.nih.gov]