Evaluating diabetic foot infection with magnetic resonance imaging: Kuwait experience

Medical Principles and Practice

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 165-172

  Al Khawari, Hanaa A ^a   Al Saeed, Osama M ^a   Jumaa, Taleb H ^b   Chishti, Fayaz ^b  

^a KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

^b AL AMIRI HOSPITAL   (Kuwait)

Author keywords

Diabetic foot infection; Diabetic foot osteomyelitis; Magnetic resonance imaging

Indexed keywords

GADOLINIUM;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CELLULITIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETIC FOOT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KUWAIT; LIMB SALVAGE; MALE; NEUROPATHIC JOINT DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OSTEOMYELITIS; PREDICTION; SKIN ABSCESS; SOFT TISSUE INFECTION; TENOSYNOVITIS; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DIABETIC FOOT; FEMALE; HUMANS; KUWAIT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOMYELITIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 18644362162     PISSN: 10117571     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000084634     Document Type: Article

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