Tumoriform focal muscular degeneration in two diabetic patients

Abstract

Focal muscular degeneration in two diabetics is described. In both instances the muscular lesion was excised on the grounds of clinical suspicion of tumour. The gross and microscopical pictures agreed with those of muscular degeneration following ischaemia. Accordingly, the vascular lesions that were demonstrated, diabetic microangiopathy and arteriosclerosis, may have been of importance in the pathogenesis. © 1965 Springer-Verlag.