Limb salvage experience in a multidisciplinary diabetic foot unit

Diabetes Care

Volumn 22, Issue SUPPL. 2, 1999, Pages

  Holstein, Per E ^a   SØrensen, Steffen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; CONFERENCE PAPER; DEBRIDEMENT; DIABETIC FOOT; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FOOT ULCER; GANGRENE; HUMAN; LEG AMPUTATION; LEG ISCHEMIA; LEG REVASCULARIZATION; LIMB ISCHEMIA; LIMB SALVAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; SURVIVAL;

AMPUTATION; ANKLE; BLOOD GLUCOSE; DIABETIC FOOT; FOOT; GANGRENE; HUMANS; LEG; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOES; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 0033049735     PISSN: 01495992     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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