Conservative management of diabetic foot ulcers complicated by osteomyelitis

Wounds

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 31-35

  Yadlapalli, N G ^a   Vaishnav, Anand ^a   Sheehan, Peter ^b  

^a STATEN ISLAND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b NYU HOSPITAL FOR JOINT DISEASES   (United States)

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