Healing rates of diabetic foot ulcers associated with Midfoot fracture due to Charcot's arthropathy

Diabetic Medicine

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 46-49

  Lavery, L A ^a,b,d,e   Armstrong, D G ^a,d   Walker, S C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^b Mex Amer Med Treatm E   (United States)

^c BROOKE ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d Diabetic Foot Research Group   (United States)

^e Mays Cancer Center at UT Health San Antonio   (United States)

Author keywords

Arthropathy; Contact casts; Neuropathy; Ulcer

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETIC FOOT; FEMALE; FOOT ULCER; FRACTURE; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROPATHIC JOINT DISEASE; ULCER HEALING; WOUND HEALING;

ADULT; AGED; ARTHROPATHY, NEUROGENIC; DIABETIC FOOT; FEMALE; FOOT INJURIES; FRACTURES, BONE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TIME FACTORS; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 0031015967     PISSN: 07423071     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9136(199701)14:1<46::AID-DIA291>3.0.CO;2-T     Document Type: Article

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