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

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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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  1. Department of Medicine, ASCOMS & Hospital, Sidhra, Jammu, J&K, 180017, India

    Sanjay Bhat (Consultant Medicine), Kalyan Dutt & Khalid Javid Bhat

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Bhat, S., Dutt, K. & Bhat, K.J. Painful leg in a diabetic patient: an unusual cause (pyomyositis). Egypt J Intern Med 26, 136–139 (2014). https://doi.org/10.4103/1110-7782.145318

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