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Wednesday, December 22, 2010
Last Gory Medical Challenge Before Christmas
If the New England Journal of Medicine can do it right before Christmas, so can EverythingHealth. This shocking pic represents what diagnosis?
1. Ichthyosis
2. Ischemic gangrene
3. Necrobiosis lipoidica diabeticorum
4. Phlegmasia cerulea dolens
5. Pyoderma gangrenosum
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Alright. It's your nerdy Atlanta colleague who loves when you post these. .. .(clearly I'm a nerd if I thought "ooohhh!" instead of "eeewwww!" when I saw this picture.)
I'm going with the ischemic gangrene from hell. Pyoderma is pretty gnarly stuff, but doesn't turn you all yucky and necrotic like that.
Ischemic gangrene, final answer.
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O-kay, internet lost my post @#&%! Ischmec Gangrene...posted before i saw Gradydoc's...like it matters.
Thought it was frostbite!
Number 3. I am going out on a limb here. (pardon the pun)
I don't see the ulceration typically associated with pyoderma gangrene, so I'm going with ischemic gangrene.
I know you have to be careful with with a higher risk of getting gangrene when you are a diabetic so it is a hard guess. My first was #2 but it looks like it might also be #3 because of the dead skin.
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2 ...looks like gangrene
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