Chronic leg ulceration with livedoid vasculitis, and response to oral ketanserin
- 1 January 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in British Journal of Dermatology
- Vol. 120 (1) , 101-105
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2133.1989.tb07771.x
Abstract
We report a patient with a 6-year history of recalcitrant painful ulceration of both lower legs, diagnosed as being due to livedoid vasculitis. The lesions healed rapidly and remained healed on treatment with oral ketanserin.This publication has 17 references indexed in Scilit:
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