Pyoderma Gangrenosum as Differential Diagnosis to Post-Operative Infection after Breast Plastic Surgery.

is a scarce ulcerating inflammatory skin disease, which requires excluding other causes of ulceration such as infections, malignancies or connective tissue diseases. We report the case of a 38-year-old woman who developed a progressive bilateral breast skin ulcer after breast plastic surgery, suspected initially with an early postoperative infection. The lack of improvement despite adequate antimicrobial drugs conducted to perform a skin biopsy, concluding to an ulcerated neutrophil dermatosis which led to the diagnosis of postoperative . The clinical course was favorable with a systemic treatment based on steroids. In order to prevent debridement and extension of local complications, this case report illustrates the importance to suspect as differential diagnosis of infection after surgery.