The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine

CASE REPORT
Year
: 2014  |  Volume : 26  |  Issue : 3  |  Page : 136--138

Painful leg in a diabetic patient: an unusual cause (pyomyositis)


Sanjay Bhat, Kalyan Dutt, Khalid Javid Bhat 
 Department of Medicine, ASCOMS & Hospitals, Jammu, J&K, India

Correspondence Address:
Sanjay Bhat
Consultant Medicine, ASCOMS & Hospital, Sidhra, Jammu, 180017, J&K
India

Pyomyositis, a rare condition can involve perfectly healthy individuals but is generally a disease of immunocompromised like diabetic patients. Probably, the result of transient bacteraemia characteristically involve muscles of lower limbs. Clinically to begin with, can mimic other non-infective musculoskeletal disease which often result in the delay of diagnosis.


How to cite this article:
Bhat S, Dutt K, Bhat KJ. Painful leg in a diabetic patient: an unusual cause (pyomyositis).Egypt J Intern Med 2014;26:136-138


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Bhat S, Dutt K, Bhat KJ. Painful leg in a diabetic patient: an unusual cause (pyomyositis). Egypt J Intern Med [serial online] 2014 [cited 2024 Mar 28 ];26:136-138
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