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Year : 2014 | Volume
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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
Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None | Check |
DOI: 10.4103/1110-7782.145318
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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. |
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