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Objective: Background: Diabetic myonecrosis, also termed diabetic muscle infarct, is a rare and severe complication of longstanding, poorly controlled Diabetes Mellitus. Angervall and Stener first described this condition in 1965 and less than 200 cases have been reported in the literature since. This disorder typically presents as an atraumatic acute onset of pain and swelling of the affected muscle most frequently in the lower extremities and involving the muscles of the thigh. Diabetic myonecrosis usually occurs in patients with an established longstanding history of diabetes in the setting of other associated microangiopathic changes such as retinopathy, neuropathy, and nephropathy....