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Images in rheumatology
Fever, low back pain and skin ulcerations
  1. Linrong He,
  2. Yongpeng Ge,
  3. Xiaoming Shu
  1. Department of Rheumatology, Key Laboratory of Myositis, China-Japan Friendship Hospital, Beijing, People's Republic of China
  1. Correspondence to Dr Xiaoming Shu; sxm992283{at}hotmail.com

https://doi.org/10.1136/ard-2024-225662

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    A 43-year-old woman was hospitalised with 21 days of fever, severe low back pain and 10 days of painful skin lesions involving both knees (panel A and B) (figure 1) in succession. The lesions emerged as erythema, then blistered and ulcerated rapidly with a necrolytic, undermined violaceous border that did not respond to antimicrobial therapy. She had an 8-year history of poorly controlled ulcerative colitis (UC). An exacerbation of bloody diarrhoea occurred 2 months ago. Laboratory testing revealed a C-reactive protein level of 16.4 mg/dL (reference value, <0.8), while antinuclear …

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    Footnotes

    • Handling editor Josef S Smolen

    • Contributors LH, YG and XS were involved in the management of the patient. LH and YG drafted the manuscript which was finalised by XS.

    • Funding National High Level Hospital Clinical Research Funding (2022-NHLHCRF-YS-02-05).

    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.