Trends and characteristics of diabetes-related lower limb amputations in the Negev, 1996-1999

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Volumn 145, Issue 10, 2006, Pages

  Bilenko, V ^a   Bilenko, N ^b,c   Harman Boehm, I ^a   Atar, D ^a   Rosen, S ^b   Weitzman, S ^b  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^c MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Israel)

Author keywords

Diabetes mellitus; Epidemiology; In hospital mortality rate; Low limb amputations; Orthopedics; Trends in incidence rate

Indexed keywords

AGED; AMPUTATION; ARTICLE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIABETIC FOOT; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; ISRAEL; LEG; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; STATISTICS; SURVIVAL;

AGED; AMPUTATION; DIABETES COMPLICATIONS; DIABETIC FOOT; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; ISRAEL; LEG; MIDDLE AGED; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 33947285680     PISSN: 00177768     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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