Foot Osteomyelitis in Patients Without Diabetes—Editorial Comment
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Osteomyelitis of the foot in diabetic patients.
Osteomyelitis of the foot, a common and serious problem in diabetic patients, results from diabetes complications, especially peripheral neuropathy. Infection generally develops by spread of contiguous soft-tissue infection to underlying bone. The major diagnostic difficulty in diabetic patients is distinguishing bone infection from noninfectious neuropathic bony lesions. Certain clinical signs...
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عنوان ژورنال: Infectious Diseases in Clinical Practice
سال: 2018
ISSN: 1536-9943,1056-9103
DOI: 10.1097/ipc.0000000000000658