The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine (Jan 2014)

Painful leg in a diabetic patient: an unusual cause (pyomyositis)

  • Sanjay Bhat,
  • Kalyan Dutt,
  • Khalid Javid Bhat

DOI
https://doi.org/10.4103/1110-7782.145318
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 26, no. 3
pp. 136 – 138

Abstract

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Pyomyositis, a rare condition can involve perfectly healthy individuals but is generally a disease of immunocompromised like diabetic patients. Probably, the result of transient bacteraemia characteristically involve muscles of lower limbs. Clinically to begin with, can mimic other non-infective musculoskeletal disease which often result in the delay of diagnosis.

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