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Mask-induced pressure ulcer of the nasal bridge Volume 23, numéro 4, July-August 2013

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Auteurs
Department of Dermatology,
Turgut Ozal Faculty of Medicine,
Alparslan Turkes Caddesi No: 57,
06510, Ankara, Turkey

An 88-year-old woman presented to our dermatology outpatient clinic with an ulcerative, painful wound on her nose. She had been diagnosed with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) 2 months previously and started using bilevel positive airway pressure (BPAP) for ten minutes per hour (figures 1B-C). After one month usage of the BPAP mask, first an erythema began on her nose then it progressed to a wound. Oxytetracycline and dexpanthenolum pomade were applied to the wound by the patient without [...]