Probe-to-bone test for diagnosing diabetic foot osteomyelitis: Reliable or relic?

Diabetes Care

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 270-274

  Lavery, Lawrence A ^a,e   Armstrong, David G ^b   Peters, Edgar J G ^c   Lipsky, Benjamin A ^d  

^a TEXAS A AND M HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b ROSALIND FRANKLIN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE   (United States)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^e SCOTT AND WHITE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BONE BIOPSY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIABETIC FOOT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MECHANICAL PROBE; OSTEOMYELITIS;

BODY MASS INDEX; COHORT STUDIES; DIABETIC ANGIOPATHIES; DIABETIC FOOT; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FOOT DISEASES; HUMANS; INFECTION; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOMYELITIS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 33846707887     PISSN: 01495992     EISSN: 01495992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2337/dc06-1572     Document Type: Article

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