Functional status of persons with diabetes-related lower-extremity amputations

Diabetes Care

Volumn 24, Issue 10, 2001, Pages 1799-1804

  Peters, Edgar J G ^a,b,e   Childs, Michael R ^a   Wunderlich, Robert P ^c   Harkless, Lawrence B ^a   Armstrong, David G ^d   Lavery, Lawrence A ^c  

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

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

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

^e NONE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AMPUTATION; ARTICLE; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIABETIC FOOT; DISABLED PERSON; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADULT; AGED; AMPUTATION; AMPUTEES; DIABETES COMPLICATIONS; DIABETIC FOOT; DISABLED PERSONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0035487692     PISSN: 01495992     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2337/diacare.24.10.1799     Document Type: Article

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