CASE REPORT article
Front. Endocrinol.
Sec. Clinical Diabetes
Volume 16 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fendo.2025.1604157
Case report: Pyoderma gangrenosum misdiagnosed as diabetic foot.
Provisionally accepted
- 1Department of Endocrinology,Haikou Affiliated Hospital of Central South University Xiangya School of Medicine, Haikou, China
- 2Department of Healthcare, Haikou Affiliated Hospital of Central South University Xiangya School of Medicine., Haikou, China
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Pyoderma gangrenosum (PG) is a rare neutrophilic dermatosis characterized by pain and sterile ulcers. PG in diabetic patients is uncommon and often misdiagnosed as diabetic foot. This paper reports a case of a diabetic patient with a painful foot ulcer, ultimately diagnosed as PG.
Keywords: Pyoderma gangrenosum misdiagnosed as diabetic foot Diabetic foot, Pyoderma Gangrenosum, glucocorticoid, case report, Diabetic Foot
Received: 01 Apr 2025; Accepted: 15 Aug 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Zhang, Jiang, Wu and Xiong. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence: Qing Xiong, Department of Endocrinology,Haikou Affiliated Hospital of Central South University Xiangya School of Medicine, Haikou, China
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