Major lower limb amputation in diabetic patients: Development during 1982 to 1993

Diabetologia

Volumn 39, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 1607-1610

  Ebskov, B ^a   Ebskov, L ^a  

^a GENTOFTE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

amputation; complications; macroangiopathy; peripheral vascular disease

Indexed keywords

AGED; CONFERENCE PAPER; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIABETIC ANGIOPATHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIMB AMPUTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMPUTATION; COHORT STUDIES; DENMARK; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LEG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX FACTORS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0029958743     PISSN: 0012186X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001250050622     Document Type: Conference Paper

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