Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Loss of protective sensation, inflammation and trauma may lead in predisposed diabetics with peripheral neuropathy to Charcot foot.Methods: Regular foot screening enables identification of those individuals who are at highest risk for foot ulceration. Special attention must be paid to infection. Differentiation between osteomyelitis and Charcot arthropathy is mandatory, the two conditions may coexist. Basic conservative treatment for Charco...