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Table 2 Incidence of Charcot Neuroarthropathy in Patients with Diabetes

From: Charcot stage 0: A review and consideratons for making the correct diagnosis early

Reference

No. of Cases (No. of Feet)

Reported Incidence

Sinha et al. 1971 [55]

101 (N/A)

0.1 %

Cofield et al. 1983 [56]

96 (116)

7.5–29 %

Sella et al. 1999 [7]

40 (51)

5 %

Fabrin and Holstein 2000 [13]

115 (140)

0.3 %/year

Sanders et al. 2001 [57]

N/A

0.1–7.5 %

Rajbhandari 2002 [58]

N/A

0.1–0.4 %

Hartemann-Heurtier et al. 2002 [59]

N/A

0.2–3 %

Lavery et al. 2003 [14]

N/A

0.0085 %/year

  1. Adapted from Frykberg, R and Belczyk, R [17]. A brief review of the literature demonstrating the relative low incidence of CN in the overall population. There is a range of incidences reported from 0.10 to 29.00 % and seems consistent over time