Work-up of the diabetic foot.
Diabetes is a common disease with potentially devastating complications affecting the foot and ankle. A combination of vascular disease, peripheral neuropathy, and immunopathy results in a cascade of conditions including ischemia and infarction, tendinopathy, atrophy, edema, deformity, neuropathic osteoarthropathy, callus, ulceration, and infection. MRI is useful for evaluation of these complications, and assists the clinician in medical or surgical planning.
Morrison
William B
WB
Department of Radiology, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, 111 South 11th Street, 3390 Gibbon, Philadelphia, PA 19107, USA. william.morrison@mail.tju.edu
Ledermann
Hans Peter
HP
D017719:Diabetic Foot / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging