Letter: Pyomyositis in London.

Case of pyomyositis occurring in London.

Letter: Gaps in the literature in London medical libraries.

Pyomyositis.

Poorly controlled diabetes is associated with an increased risk of infectious complications. With the increasing prevalence of diabetes, many more people are being looked after in primary care. We describe a case of pyomyositis, a potentially severe but uncommon complication of poorly controlled diabetes that was not recognised in the community. Clinicians looking after people with diabetes nee...

[Tropical pyomyositis].

Historically, first case of TP was described by Scriba in 1885, though some authors believe that Virchow was the first one to describe this entity. Since TP was predominantly seen in tropics, various terms like tropical pyomyositis, myositis tropicans, and tropical myositis are used, but nowadays this entity is no longer confined only to tropics. Levine in 1971, reported the first case of TP fr...

Pyomyositis in children.

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