title: Work-up of the diabetic foot.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, 111 South 11th Street, 3390 Gibbon, Philadelphia, PA 19107, USA. william.morrison@mail.tju.edu
authors.forename: William B
authors.initials: WB
authors.lastname: Morrison
authors.forename: Hans Peter
authors.initials: HP
authors.lastname: Ledermann
mesh_terms: D017719:Diabetic Foot / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging