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Practical Hints for Imaging the Diabetic Foot |
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Contemporary Diagnostic Radiology,
Volume 18,
Issue 14,
1995,
Page 1-1
RICHARD GOLD,
DOMINIC TONG,
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摘要:
Diabetic patients spend more time in the hospital for foot problems than for any other complications of their diseaes. Indeed, foot complications of diabetes are the most common cause of nontraumatic lower extremity amputation in the United States, leading to as many as 50,000 amputatoins per year. Early and accurate diagnosis of infection or neuropathy and the prompt initiation of conservative therapy are the keys of management. Antibiotics and debridement may cure localized infection suffessfully before extension to the plantar compartments necassitates amputation. Similarity, early diagnosis of peripheral neuropathy allows timely preventive and protective interventions to avoid divastating neuro-arthropathy.The purpose of this lesson is to describe the pathophysologic basis for the abnormal imaging findings in the diabetic foot and to discuss the accuracy of various imaging techniques in evaluting pedal osteomyelitis.
ISSN:0149-9009
出版商:OVID
年代:1995
数据来源: OVID
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