This Article  • References  • Full text PDF  • Send to a friend  • Save in My Folder  • Save to citation manager  • Permissions  Citing Articles  • Citation map  • Contact me when this article is cited  Related Content  • Similar articles in this journal  Social Bookmarking   What's this?

A Reactive Mucosal Marker for Inflammatory Disease of the Gut

Harriet M. VanHale, MD; Roy S. Rogers III, MD; John J. Zone, MD; Philip R. Greipp, MD

Arch Dermatol. 1985;121(1):94-98.

Abstract
• Pyostomatitis vegetans is a rarely occurring disorder of the oral mucosa, which has a dramatic clinical picture and a striking histopathologic pattern. Moreover, the condition is a highly specific oral mucosal marker for inflammatory bowel disease, particularly ulcerative colitis. Our findings in two cases and a review of the literature emphasize the relationship of pyostomatitis vegetans to inflammatory bowel disease and the vegetating dermatoses.

(Arch Dermatol 1985;121:94-98)

Author Affiliations
From the Department of Dermatology (Drs VanHale and Rogers) and the Division of Hematology and Internal Medicine (Dr Greipp), Mayo Clinic and Mayo Foundation, Rochester, Minn; and the Department of Medicine, University of Utah College of Medicine, Salt Lake City (Dr Zone).

Footnotes
Accepted for publication Nov 23, 1983.

Reprint requests to the Department of Dermatology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905 (Dr Rogers).

CiteULike    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati     What's this?