Ulcer metastasis? Anatomical locations of recurrence for patients in diabetic foot remission.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The "cancer analogy" is powerful for communicating risk to and organizing care for patients with diabetic foot syndrome. One potentially underappreciated similarity between cancer and foot ulcers is that both can recur at anatomical locations distinct from the primary occurrence, albeit with different physiological mechanisms. Few studies have characterized the location of diabetic foot ulcer recurrence, and these have been limited by considering only the first recurrent wound following a recent-healed wound. We therefore characterized the anatomical locations at which diabetic foot ulcers are likely to recur considering multiple wounds during follow-up and the locations of all prior wounds documented in the participant's history.

Methods

We completed a secondary

SUBMITTER: Petersen BJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6958592 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature