While practicing as a surgeon, he invented an excision knife to treat tropical ulcers.

The vast majority of the tropical ulcers occur below the knee, usually around the ankle.

Unlike Buruli ulcer, tropical ulcers are very painful.

F. ulcerans has recently been isolated from lesions and is unique to tropical ulcers.

Later, tropical ulcer may become infected with a variety of organisms, notably, staphylococci and/or streptococci.

Urbanization of populations could be another factor, as tropical ulcer is usually a rural problem.

Despite this, susceptible individuals still develop tropical ulcers.

Improving hygiene and nutrition may help to prevent tropical ulcers.

The picture was completed by one of nature's beauty marks, in this case a tropical ulcer, tastefully located on my neck by the right ear.

He had a huge tropical ulcer on his left leg that we were treating, and that was certainly poisoning the whole system.