{"title":"Diabetic Muscle Infarction: A Rare Complication of a Common Disease","authors":"S. Samargandy, A. Alhozali","doi":"10.32790/sjim.2019.9.1.8","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Diabetes mellitus is a multifaceted metabolic disease with several serious complications. Diabetic muscle infarction is a rare musculoskeletal diabetic complication that can be frequently misdiagnosed as it shares clinical manifestations with multiple other more common clinical disorders. We present in this report, a case of diabetic myonecrosis with brief discussion about this unusual complication along with its management and expected outcomes.","PeriodicalId":280480,"journal":{"name":"Saudi Journal of Internal Medicine","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2019-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Saudi Journal of Internal Medicine","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.32790/sjim.2019.9.1.8","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Diabetes mellitus is a multifaceted metabolic disease with several serious complications. Diabetic muscle infarction is a rare musculoskeletal diabetic complication that can be frequently misdiagnosed as it shares clinical manifestations with multiple other more common clinical disorders. We present in this report, a case of diabetic myonecrosis with brief discussion about this unusual complication along with its management and expected outcomes.