Diabetic muscular necrosis: three Afrocaribbean cases

Diabetic muscular infarction is an exceptional complication of diabetes mellitus. Patients with macro- and microvascular manifestations are mostly concerned. Muscular pain with swelling of the thigh is the main manifestation, sometimes associated with fever. We report here five cases of diabetic mus...

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Published inLa revue de medecine interne Vol. 30; no. 2; pp. 161 - 164
Main Authors Baubion, E, Deligny, C, Numéric, P, Dehlinger, V, Jean-Baptiste, G, Arfi, S
Format Journal Article
LanguageFrench
Published France 01.02.2009
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Caribbean Region
Diabetic Angiopathies - complications
Female
Humans
Infarction - ethnology
Infarction - etiology
Middle Aged
Muscle, Skeletal - blood supply
Muscle, Skeletal - pathology
Necrosis
Caribbean Region
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Summary:Diabetic muscular infarction is an exceptional complication of diabetes mellitus. Patients with macro- and microvascular manifestations are mostly concerned. Muscular pain with swelling of the thigh is the main manifestation, sometimes associated with fever. We report here five cases of diabetic muscular infarction in three Afro-carribean patients with atypical clinical features. The surgical biopsy procedure allowed the diagnosis and ruled out pyomyositis, a more common bacterial disease on tropical condition. This report of three cases of this exceptional disease in a small population seems more related to the high prevalence of diabetes mellitus in the French West Indies than to their ethnic origin.
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ISSN:0248-8663
DOI:10.1016/j.revmed.2008.08.021