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Volume 63, Issue 4 , Pages e395-e396 , April 2010

Case report: Pyoderma gangrenosum following Deep Inferior Epigastric Perforator (Diep) free flap breast reconstruction

Y. Rajapakse
- Departments of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Royal Marsden Hospital, Fulham Road, London SW3, UK
- Corresponding author. Mobile: +44 754 532 6799.
C.B. Bunker
- Departments of Dermatology, Royal Marsden Hospital, Fulham Road, London SW3, UK
A. Ghattaura
- Departments of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Royal Marsden Hospital, Fulham Road, London SW3, UK
N. Jallali
- Departments of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Royal Marsden Hospital, Fulham Road, London SW3, UK
J. Henton
- Departments of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Royal Marsden Hospital, Fulham Road, London SW3, UK
S.E. James
- Departments of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Royal Marsden Hospital, Fulham Road, London SW3, UK
P.A. Harris
- Departments of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Royal Marsden Hospital, Fulham Road, London SW3, UK
A.E. Searle
- Departments of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Royal Marsden Hospital, Fulham Road, London SW3, UK

Received 23 July 2009 ,Accepted 21 October 2009.

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