Pyoderma vegetans and ulcerative colitis

Pyoderma vegetans (PV) is a chronic, vegetating pustular disorder character ized clinically by erythematous vesiculopustular vegetating cutaneous plaqu es. Marked epidermal hyperplasia, intraepidermal and subepidermal neutrophi lic microabscesses and a dermal inflammatory infiltrate are the prominent h istopathological findings. We describe a patient with PV associated with ul cerative colitis and mammary Paget's disease. Pustular eruptions associated with ulcerative colitis are reviewed.