Fifty percent area reduction after 4 weeks of treatment is a reliable indicator for healing-analysis of a single-center cohort of 704 diabetic patients

Journal of Diabetes and its Complications

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 49-53

  Coerper, Stephan ^a   Beckert, Stefan ^a   Küper, Markus A ^a   Jekov, Martin ^b   Königsrainer, Alfred ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b ROSTOCK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Diabetic foot; Surgery; Surrogate marker

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE; CALCULATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DIABETIC FOOT; DIABETIC PATIENT; EVALUATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LEG AMPUTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTPATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE RATE; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT RESPONSE; ULCER HEALING; VALIDITY; WOUND CARE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; DIABETIC FOOT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROBABILITY; TIME FACTORS; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 56449099740     PISSN: 10568727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jdiacomp.2008.02.001     Document Type: Article

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