Study of Benign Ulcers of the Leg and Foot from a Tertiary Care Health Centre Of Madhya Pradesh
Journal Title: Scholars Journal of Applied Medical Sciences - Year 2017, Vol 5, Issue 3
Abstract
Abstract: Leg and foot ulcers are probably one of the very common conditions presenting in any surgical out patient department of our country. Only a very few studies have been conducted on this topic and none from the state of Madhya Pradesh. The present study was planned to study the benign ulcers of the leg and foot in the region of Madhya Pradesh. A retrospective cohort of patients with leg and foot ulcers admitted to Department of Surgery, Sukhsagar Medical College, and Jabalpur during past one year i.e. January to December 2014 formed the study population. In this study, all the eligible patients positively diagnosed as leg and foot ulcers were included in this study. Only benign ulcers were studied. Malignant ulcers were excluded from this study. Study tools were records of the patients such as information/records from MRD department and clinical case sheets. Diabetic ulcer (30.91%), venous ulcer (21.82%) and traumatic ulcers (20.00%) were the most common variety of ulcers etiologically. Location wise most ulcers were located at dorsal foot (43.65%) followed by at the leg (32.73%). Most of the diabetic ulcers (>82%) were having grade I or II as per Wagner grading of Diabetic ulcers. Majority of patients (43.65%) were in the age group of >50 years followed by equal number of cases (21.82% each) in 31-40 years and 41-50 years age group. Keywords:Pattern, benign ulcers, leg, foot, clinical features, patients
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Veerabhadrappa PS, Priyanka Tank, Abhishek Singh, Shwetank Goel, Rakesh Tank
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