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

More general terms

• rheumatologic disease
• diabetes mellitus complication

More specific terms

• cheiroarthropathy