The choice of diabetic foot ulcer classification in relation to the final outcome

Wounds

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 16-25

  Van Acker, K ^a   De Block, C ^a   Abrams, P ^a   Bouten, A ^a   De Leeuw, I ^a   Droste, J ^a   Weyler, J ^a   Peter Riesch, B ^b  

^a ANTWERP UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^b GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

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