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

Abstract

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.

Keywords

• Diabetes, immunocompromised, pyomyositis