Shumaila Seemi Malik, Naeem Ahmad Khan, Safdar Ali Malik.
Role of high resolution ultrasound in diagnosing diabetic muscle infarction.
Ann King Edward Med Uni Jan ;10(4):454-5.

The study was carried out on eight patients with clinical presentation of non-traumatic painful swelling of lower limbs & were examined with high resolution Ultrasound probe of 12 MHz on Logic 700 expert series, with average patients age of about 37 years with H/O of uncontrolled diabetes Mellitus, showed discrepancy of circumference / thickness of Calf muscles compared to the opposite normal lower limb with areas of low echogenicity & one patient showed areas of necrosis / abscesses in muscle planes. All were diagnosed & latter confirmed on biopsy as Diabetic muscle infarctions with superadded inflammation.

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