Role of high resolution ultrasound in diagnosing diabetic muscle infarction

Autor:	Naeem Ahmad Khan, Safdar Ali Malik, Shumaila Seemi Malik
Rok vydání:	2016
Předmět:	medicine.medical_specialty Necrosis medicine.diagnostic_test business.industry Infarction Echogenicity High resolution ultrasound General Medicine medicine.disease Lower limb Calf muscles Surgery Diabetes mellitus Biopsy medicine Radiology medicine.symptom business
Zdroj:	Annals of King Edward Medical University. 10
ISSN:	2079-0694 2079-7192
Popis:	The study was carried out on eight patients with clinical presentation of non-traumatic painful swelling of lower limbs & were examined with high resolution Ultrasound probe of 12 MHz on Logic 700 expert series, with average patients age of about 37 years with H/O of uncontrolled diabetes Mellitus, showed discrepancy of circumference / thickness of Calf muscles compared to the opposite normal lower limb with areas of low echogenicity & one patient showed areas of necrosis / abscesses in muscle planes. All were diagnosed & latter confirmed on biopsy as Diabetic muscle infarctions with superadded inflammation.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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