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Diabetic foot
A
diabetic foot
is a
foot
that exhibits any pathology that results directly from
diabetes mellitus
or any long-term (or "chronic")
complication of diabetes mellitus
. Presence of several characteristic diabetic foot pathologies such as
infection
,
diabetic foot ulcer
and
neuropathic osteoarthropathy
is called
diabetic foot syndrome
.
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