The terms diabetic ulcer indicate a lesion unlikely to heal spontaneously that can affect, depending on its importance and severity, cutaneous, subcutaneous and bone tissues.
The terms diabetic ulcer indicate a lesion unlikely to heal spontaneously that can affect, depending on its importance and severity, cutaneous, subcutaneous and bone tissues.
The terms diabetic ulcer indicate a lesion unlikely to heal spontaneously that can affect, depending on its importance and severity, cutaneous, subcutaneous and bone tissues. Its most common location is in the foot and it involves in distal-proximal sense the apical regions of toes, interphalangeal joints, metatarsal head (plantar region), the heel, the bones of the tibia-fibula-talus mortise (ankle) and the leg.
The involvement of the foot is dangerous because of the disease progression, since subcutaneous and bone tissues are often involved with infections and fistulae, which can contribute to the development of septic necrosis and relative amputation of the affected area, even though research and technology allow to perform tissue transplantation.
