Change in major amputation rate in a center dedicated to diabetic foot care during the 1980s: Prognostic determinants for major amputation

Journal of Diabetes and its Complications

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 96-102

  Faglia, Ezio ^a   Favales, Fabrizio ^a   Aldeghi, Antonio ^a   Calia, Patrizia ^a   Quarantiello, Antonella ^a   Barbano, Pierremigio ^a   Puttini, Maurizio ^a   Palmieri, Bruno ^a   Brambilla, Giorgio ^a   Rampoldi, Antonio ^a   Mazzola, Ester ^a   Valenti, Luigi ^a   Fattori, Gianfranco ^a   Rega, Vincenzo ^a   Cristalli, Aldo ^a   Oriani, Giorgio ^a   Michael, Michael ^a   Morabito, Alberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANKLE; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIABETIC FOOT; FEMALE; FOOT AMPUTATION; HUMAN; HYPERBARIC OXYGEN; LIMB PERFUSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; STROKE; TRANSCUTANEOUS OXYGEN MONITORING;

EID: 0031981962     PISSN: 10568727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1056-8727(97)98004-1     Document Type: Article

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