The football: An intuitive dressing for offloading neuropathic plantar forefoot ulcerations

International Wound Journal

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 69-73

  Rader, Andrew J ^a   Barry, Timothy P ^a  

^a Memorial Hospital and Healthcare Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Dressing; Football; Forefoot; Neuropathic; Ulceration

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EPITHELIZATION; FOLLOW UP; FOOT ULCER; FOREFOOT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEUROPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SAFETY; WOUND DRESSING; WOUND HEALING;

DEBRIDEMENT; DIABETIC FOOT; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FOREFOOT, HUMAN; HUMANS; OCCLUSIVE DRESSINGS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 40749137775     PISSN: 17424801     EISSN: 1742481X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-481X.2007.00364.x     Document Type: Article

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