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Clinical-Medical Image - International Journal of Clinical & Medical Images (2023) Volume 10, Issue 2
Author(s): Saurabh Bendle* and Deeplata Mende
Department of Community Health Nursing, Smt. Radhikabai meghe memorial college of nursing, Datta Meghe Institute of Medical Sciences, Sawangi, Wardha, Maharashtra, India
Received: 07 February, 2023, Manuscript No. ijcmi-23-88987; Editor assigned: 08 February, 2023, 2023, PreQC No. P-88987; Reviewed: 13 February, 2023, QC No. Q-88987; Revised: 16 February, 2023, Manuscript No. R-88987; Published: 23 February, 2023, DOI: 10.4172/2376-0249.1000876
Citation: Bendle S and Deeplata M. (2023) Amputation of Right Diabetic Toe with Wet Gangrene: A Rare Clinical Image. Int J Clin Med Imaging 10:876.
Copyright: © 2023 Bendle S, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
A case of sixty-three years old male came into emergency ward with complaints of wet skin, right toe numbness and swelling, pain on thrombin, crack skin and purulent discharge from 1 week. Patient having past medical history of diabetic mellitus. No one has a similar complaint about this disease condition in her family. On physical examination of the patient, softness of the skin, oozing of the fluid from the necrosis area was noted. CT lower limb angiography revels that Right superficial femoral arteries show mild atheromatous wall calcifications and eccentric plaque, that suggested wet gangrene; after conforming the patient’s diagnosis, the patient was referred to critical care ward for further management. There surgical management of right toe amputation was done.
Diabetic foot; Diabetic toe; Foot care Surgical amputation; Gangrene; Toe amputation; Pus formation
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