[Clinico-radiological estimation of the foot changes in patients with diabetes mellitus].
Results of roentgenography, performed in 92 patients with diabetes mellitus, complicated by purulent-necrotic affection of foot, and data of nuclear-magnetoresonance tomography (NMRT), conducted in 17 patients, were analyzed. In 70% patients tactics of their further treatment was influenced by presence of deformity and destruction of the foot bones and joints, revealed by roentgenography. Data of the foot roentgenography permitted to differentiate diabetic osteoarthropathy vs the foot bones osteomyelitis in 81% of observations. It is impossible to determine the bone integrity according to NMRT results, but inflammatory foci in bone may be revealed. In presence of obscure data of roentgenography and NMRT it is necessary to make diagnosis of osteomyelitis and to perform proper treatment during 3-6 weeks.
Petrovs'kyĭ
M M
MM
Kharchevnaia
A F
AF
Podpriatov
S Ie
SIe
Il'kin
O V
OV
Zubariev
V G
VG
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D048909:Diabetes Complications; D017719:Diabetic Foot / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009336:Necrosis; D011859:Radiography; D012720:Severity of Illness Index