Editorial: Diabetes and landmine-related amputations: A call to arms to save limbs

International Wound Journal

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 2-3

  Bharara, M ^a   Mills, J L ^a   Suresh, K ^b   Rilo, H L ^a   Armstrong, D G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Bhagwan Mahaveer Jain Hospital   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARM; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIABETIC FOOT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; EDITORIAL; EPIDEMIC; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LIMB AMPUTATION; MINING; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUALITY OF LIFE; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; WOUND HEALING; AMPUTATION; BOMB; LEG INJURY; STATISTICS; TRAUMATIC AMPUTATION;

AMPUTATION; AMPUTATION, TRAUMATIC; BOMBS; DIABETIC FOOT; HUMANS; LEG INJURIES;

EID: 61849145900     PISSN: 17424801     EISSN: 1742481X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-481X.2009.00587.x     Document Type: Editorial

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