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Pyomyositis, a rare condition can involve perfectly healthy individuals but is generally a disease of immunocompromised like diabetic patients. Probably, the result of transient bacteraemia characteristically involve muscles of lower limbs. Clinically to begin with, can mimic other non-infective musculoskeletal disease which often result in the delay of diagnosis.
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Bhat, S., Dutt, K. & Bhat, K.J. Painful leg in a diabetic patient: an unusual cause (pyomyositis). Egypt J Intern Med 26, 136–139 (2014). https://doi.org/10.4103/1110-7782.145318
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