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rheumatologic complication of diabetes mellitus
Etiology:
- diabetes mellitus, long-standing & poorly controlled
Complications:
- adhesive capsulitis (31%)
- carpal tunnel syndrome (30%)
- flexor tenosynovitis (28%)
- positive prayer sign (22%)
- Dupuytren contracture (9%)
- diabetic amyotrophy (ischemic lumbosacral plexopathy)
- diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis (DISH)
- trigger finger
- cheiroarthropathy
- diabetic osteoarthropathy/Charcot joint
Specific
cheiroarthropathy
General
rheumatologic disease
diabetes mellitus complication
References
- Medical Knowledge Self Assessment Program (MKSAP) 17,
American College of Physicians, Philadelphia 2015