Foot infections are a serious complication of diabetes ... may quickly progress to an abscess in the plantar space, which requires urgent surgical intervention. Properly treating DFIs requires ...

During the advent of modern surgery in the 19th century, amputation for trauma and infection was common. In the days before ...

Surgical treatment is often unsuccessful, because there is rarely an abscess to be ... in the presence of infection or steroid therapy. Therefore, any suspected foot infection must be controlled ...

Pain is an unusual symptom in diabetic foot ulcer and may mask limb threatening complications (such as infection, abscess, critical ischemia). When an ischemic ulcer becomes infected, it may not ...