The charcot foot in diabetes: Six key points

American Family Physician

Volumn 57, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 2705-2710

  Caputo, Gregory M ^a   Ulbrecht, Jan ^a   Cavanagh, Peter R ^a   Juliano, Paul ^a   Hershey, Milton S ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLULITIS; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DIABETIC FOOT; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FOOT ULCER; PATIENT EDUCATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; REVIEW; SHOE; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ACUTE DISEASE; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DIABETIC FOOT; DIABETIC NEUROPATHIES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; PATIENT EDUCATION;

EID: 0032104168     PISSN: 0002838X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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