Can a diabetic foot be malignant?
Zaidi, M.S.; Hassan, A.; Ouizi, S.
JPMA. Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association 66(11): 1487-1489
2016
ISSN/ISBN: 0030-9982 PMID: 27812075 Document Number: 690759
Diabetes has been linked with malignancies like colon, rectum, liver, biliary tract, pancreas, kidney, leukaemia and melanoma. Melanoma can sometimes manifest as a diabetic foot ulcer.We describe an elderly male with Type 2 diabetes, who had presented to us with a non-healing wound at the right heel, that later turned out to be an invasive malignant melanoma.