Diabetic muscular infarction. Preventing morbidity by avoiding excisional biopsy.
Focal infarction of skeletal muscle is a complication of diabetes mellitus. In the appropriate clinical setting and with characteristic magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) findings, prompt diagnosis can prevent unnecessary morbidity by avoiding excisional biopsy. We report a case of diabetic muscular infarction presenting as a painful thigh mass and review diagnostic and management principles.
Keller
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Department of Medicine, University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics, Madison, USA.
Erpelding
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Grist
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D000328:Adult; D001706:Biopsy; D003924:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 / Q000150:complications*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D007238:Infarction / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology*; D018810:Magnetic Resonance Angiography; D008297:Male; D018482:Muscle, Skeletal / Q000098:blood supply*; D013848:Thigh