Can a diabetic foot be malignant?
Diabetes has been linked with malignancies like colon, rectum, liver, biliary tract, pancreas, kidney, leukaemia and melanoma. Melanoma can sometimes manifest as a diabetic foot ulcer.We describe an elderly male with Type 2 diabetes, who had presented to us with a non-healing wound at the right heel, that later turned out to be an invasive malignant melanoma.
University Diabetes Center, King Abdul Aziz University Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Muhammad Shoaib
MS
Zaidi
Alhada Armed Forces Hospital, Taif, Saudi Arabia.
Asim
A
Hassan
Foot Department, University Diabetes Center, King Abdul Aziz University Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Samir
S
Ouizi
D000368:Aged; D003924:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2; D017719:Diabetic Foot / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008545:Melanoma / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*; D012878:Skin Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*
Diabetes, Diabetic foot ulcer (DFU), Melanoma.
