Options for Off-Loading the Diabetic Foot

Wounds

Volumn 12, Issue 6 SUPPL. B, 2000, Pages

  Armstrong, David G ^a,b   Lavery, Lawrence A ^a   Harkless, Lawrence B ^a  

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

^b SOUTHERN ARIZONA VA HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

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