Muhammad Shoaib Zaidi, Asim Hassan, Samir Ouizi.
Can a diabetic foot be malignant?.
J Pak Med Assoc Jan ;66(11):1487-9.

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.

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