Journal of Clinical Case Reports

Myelopathy in a Patient with Severe Diabetic Neuropathy

Abstract

Seyed M Mirsattari and Donald H Lee

Diabetic myelopathy is a common pathological finding in patients with diabetes mellitus, but its manifestations can be masked by advanced diabetic neuropathy. This case illustrates that it should be suspected in all diabetic patients with subacute progressive symptoms affecting all extremities even in the absence of dysfunction of bowel/bladder sphincters.