Clinical outcome of diabetes patients hospitalized with foot ulcers, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Diabetic Medicine

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 575-579

  Gulam Abbas, Z ^a,c   Lutale, J K ^a   Morbach, S ^b   Archibald, L K ^a  

^a MUHIMBILI UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH AND ALLIED SCIENCES   (Tanzania)

^b Diabetic Foot Clinic   (Germany)

^c Abbas Medical Centre   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

Africans; Amputation; Diabetes; Diabetic foot care; Peripheral neuropathy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE SEVERITY; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FEMALE; FOOT AMPUTATION; FOOT ULCER; GANGRENE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LEG ISCHEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NEUROPATHY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM; TANZANIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMPUTATION; COHORT STUDIES; DIABETIC FOOT; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TANZANIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0036425612     PISSN: 07423071     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1464-5491.2002.00740.x     Document Type: Article

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