Type:
Educational Exhibit
Keywords:
Infection, Diagnostic procedure, MR, Musculoskeletal system, Musculoskeletal soft tissue, Bones
Authors:
A. Gimeno1, M. T. Veintemillas2, J. M. Escudero Fernandez1, M. De Albert1, C. Torrents Odin1, L. Casas1, R. Dominguez1; 1Barcelona/ES, 2Sabadell/ES
DOI:
10.26044/ecr2019/C-0433
Background
Diabetic mellitus (DM) is a multisystemic disease with increasing prevalence,
significant morbidity,
premature mortality and impact on the healthcare costs.
Peripheral nerve dysfunction related to DM allows the possibility to suffer minor injuries that may remain undiscovered for a long while,
causing deformity,
altered weight bearing,
subsequent osteoarthropaty,
callus and ulceration.
Peripheral artery disease that is frequently present in these patients causes difficulties to heal infections,
leading to surgery treatments like debridement and amputations.(1)(2)
We review,
from our experience,
difficult and challenging scenarios of diabetic foot complications.
We focus on what we consider the main difficulties for a radiologist,
that help taking good management decisions,
and try to answer our surgery department issues.