Small bowel infarcts in Degos disease.

[malignant atrophic papulosis]

Degos disease is a rare idiopathic vasculopathy with multisystem involvement . We present a previously healthy 40 -year -old woman who developed spontaneous small bowel infarctions and perforations 17 months after presentation with characteristic skin lesions . The abdominal CT findings of Degos disease , which have not been previously depicted in the radiology literature , are discussed .