Total-contact casting as an adjunct to promote healing of pressure ulcers in amputees

Vascular and Endovascular Surgery

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 135-140

  Pua, Bradley B ^a   Muhs, Bart E ^a   Maldonado, Thomas ^a   Ben Arie, Eyal ^a   Sheehan, Peter ^b   Gagne, Paul J ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NYU HOSPITAL FOR JOINT DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CAST APPLICATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DECUBITUS; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIABETIC NEUROPATHY; DISABLED PERSON; FEMALE; FOOT AMPUTATION; HUMAN; ISCHEMIA; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RECURRENCE RISK; ULCER HEALING; VASCULAR SURGERY; WOUND HEALING; AMPUTATION; DIABETIC FOOT; METATARSAL BONE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PLASTER CAST; RECURRENT DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TOE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AMPUTATION; AMPUTEES; CASTS, SURGICAL; DIABETIC FOOT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; METATARSAL BONES; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PRESSURE ULCER; RECURRENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33747857419     PISSN: 15385744     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/153857440604000208     Document Type: Article

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