Heel ulcers don't heal in diabetes. Or do they?

Diabetic Medicine

Volumn 22, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1258-1262

  Chipchase, Susan Y ^a   Treece, K A ^a   Pound, N ^a   Game, F L ^a   Jeffcoate, W J ^a  

^a NOTTINGHAM CITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Amputation; Diabetes complications; Foot ulcer; Heel; Neuropathy; Peripheral arterial disease

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIABETIC ANGIOPATHY; DIABETIC FOOT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FOOT AMPUTATION; HEEL; HUMAN; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OSTEOMYELITIS; PATHOGENESIS; PATIENT COUNSELING; WOUND HEALING IMPAIRMENT;

AGED; AMPUTATION; DIABETIC FOOT; FEMALE; HEEL; HUMANS; ISCHEMIA; MALE; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASES; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 24044526861     PISSN: 07423071     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1464-5491.2005.01665.x     Document Type: Article

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