Role of high resolution ultrasound in diagnosing diabetic muscle infarction

ABSTRACT

The study was carried out on eight patients with clinical presentation of non-traumatic painful swelling of lower limbs and were examined with high resolution Ultrasound probe of 12 MHz on Logic 700 expert series, with average patients age of about 37 years with H/O of uncontrolled diabetes Mellitus, showed discrepancy of circumference / thickness of Calf muscles compared to the opposite normal lower limb with areas of low echogenicity and one patient showed areas of necrosis / abscesses in muscle planes. All were diagnosed and latter confirmed on biopsy as Diabetic muscle infarctions with superadded inflammation