Xeroradiography of the diabetic foot.

The authors carried out comparative xeroradiographic and radiologic examinations of 34 patients suffering from diabetes. It has been established that xeroradiography allows an earlier and more convincing diagnosis of arterial calcifications, indurations of small size arteries, phleboliths and fistulous tracts. In diabetic gangrene the initial lesions and bone sequestra are more clearly visualized, as well as the intra-articular bone fragments and parosteal calcifications in diabetic osteoarthropathy.