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Diabetic muscular infarction. Preventing morbidity by avoiding excisional biopsy
D R Keller1, M Erpelding, T Grist
1Department of Medicine, University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics, Madison, USA.
Archives of Internal Medicine
|July 28, 1997
Abstract:
Focal infarction of skeletal muscle is a complication of diabetes mellitus. In the appropriate clinical setting and with characteristic magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) findings, prompt diagnosis can prevent unnecessary morbidity by avoiding excisional biopsy. We report a case of diabetic muscular infarction presenting as a painful thigh mass and review diagnostic and management principles.