Percutaneous flexor tenotomygâ "office procedure for diabetic toe ulcerations

Wounds

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 64-68

  Lountzis, Nektarios ^b   Parenti, John ^b   Cush, Gerald ^b   Urick, Maria ^b   Miller III, O Fred ^a  

^a GEISINGER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Autolytic debridement; Compression stockings; Delayed wound healing; Diabetic foot wounds; Impaired wound healing; Mechanical debridement; Pressure dressing; Surgical debridement; Wound fibroblasts; Wound necrosis

Indexed keywords

EID: 34047248900     PISSN: 10447946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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