Creating a diabetes foot reminder-based registry using the electronic medical record.

Objective: We created a new diabetes foot examination clinical reminder to directly populate a foot risk registry and examined its accuracy versus administrative data.

Methods: A pre- and post-test design assessed accuracy of coding foot risk and clinician acceptability. The intervention hospital's reminder was replaced with a dialogue tick box containing the International Diabetic Foot Classification System to populate risk using health factors.

Neurilemoma of the posterior tibial nerve and tarsal tunnel syndrome.

Tarsal tunnel syndrome is defined as a compressive neuropathy of the posterior tibial nerve in the tarsal canal. A neurilemoma is an uncommon, benign, encapsulated neoplasm derived from Schwann cells. We present a case of tarsal tunnel syndrome caused by this rare space-occupying lesion.

Epidermal inclusion cyst in the foot of a Vietnam Veteran.

Epidermal inclusion cysts are soft-tissue lesions that result from traumatic implantation of epidermal cells into the dermis. A case report is presented involving a large recurrent plantar inclusion cyst secondary to trauma sustained in the Vietnam War. The patient reported that the initiating trauma was the result of stepping on a punji stake in Vietnam.

Klippel-Trénaunay syndrome. An unusual presentation of unilateral leg edema.

Klippel-Trénaunay syndrome is a rare congenital condition that classically presents as a triad of varicosities, bone or soft-tissue hypertrophy, and cutaneous hemangiomas. The authors describe a case of this disease in an otherwise healthy patient with unilateral leg edema and intermittent bleeding from prominent ankle varicosities. The diagnosis was made on the basis of clinical presentation, diagnostic studies, and a comprehensive literature review.