RATIONALE Acral lentiginous melanoma (AML) does not exhibit the classic signs of malignant melanoma. ALM is frequently misdiagnosed because of its unusual sites and atypical clinical morphologies, which lead to poor prognosis. PATIENT CONCERNS A female patient aged 78 years was presented to our center with two ulcers on her right foot. Diabetic foot ulcer was considered as the primary diagnos...

UNLABELLED We herein describe the case of a 21-year-old woman with Stewart-Bluefarb syndrome presenting with recurrent ulcers on the right foot and multiple congenital arteriovenous malformations. The painful recurrent ulcers and brownish macules at the dorsum of the right foot had appeared at 13 years of age, and the size of the right foot gradually became larger than the left. She underwent c...

Aim: The study aimed to evaluate the association between quality of life and wound severity in patients with recurrent diabetic foot ulcers (DFUs). Design: A cross-sectional study. Methods: total sample comprised 86 DFU patients. Diabetic Foot Ulcer Scale – Short Form scale was used to collect data, Wagner grading assess severity. Statistical analyses were conducted using Mann-Whitney...

background: foot ulceration is one of the most common complications associated with diabetes that needs to be managed. in iran, prevalence of diabetes foot ulcer is 3%. according to studies, evidence‑based nursing (ebn) is an effective alternative to facilitate clinical decision making in patient care and may lead to quality improvement in nursing practice. the aims of this study are to assess ...

Metabolic disorders are complex abnormalities involving impaired glucose and lipid metabolism, associated with complications such as kidney disease, cardiovascular foot ulcer, retinopathy, neuropathy [...]

background: diabetic foot ulcer is one of the major problems suffered by diabetic patients, so much so that the annual incidence of this problem has increased from 0.1% to 4.1% in diabetic patients and the probability of its incidence is over 25% during the diabetic individual's life. case presentation: the patient was a 74-year-old woman with diabetes for more than 20 years. she was hospi...

OBJECTIVE The aim was assessment of diabetic foot ulcer risk factors according to International Working Group on the Diabetic Foot (IWGDF) consensus. METHODOLOGY All referred patients with diabetes were divided into four groups based on IWGDF criteria (without neuropathy, with neuropathy, neuropathy with deformity or vascular disorders, foot ulcer or amputation history). RESULTS Mean age of...

UNLABELLED  Objective. This study was aimed at identifying factors that affect the healing of foot ulcers among patients with type 2 diabetes, focusing on the evaluation of oxidative stress-one marker of the inflammatory response. METHODS A cross sectional study comprised of 96 subjects who were divided into 6 groups (16 subjects in each group). The groups were classified as non-diabetic con...

OBJECTIVE The aim was to evaluate over 18 months whether depression was associated with mortality in people with their first foot ulcer. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS A prospective cohort design was used. Adults with their first diabetic foot ulcer were recruited from foot clinics in southeast London, U.K. At baseline, the Schedules for Clinical Assessment in Neuropsychiatry 2.1 was used to def...