You receive a call from a hospital to examine a 58-year-old woman with a history of multiple ulcerations. According to the reports, the patient has a 5-month history of multiple ulcerations and abscesses including both breasts. On questioning, the patient revealed that she had undergone breast reduction surgery for her pendulous breast . The detailed review of the report suggested that the ulcerations had begun on the incision sites three weeks after the operation .
According to the records, the patient has a remarkable history of treated hypertension and quiescent ulcerative colitis . You observe that the patient was admitted multiple times for plastic surgery of incision and drainage of breast abscesses . The patient also had multiple short-term hospitalizations for infectious diseases treatment with intravenous antibiotics . All the short-term admissions led to the…
