Prospective study of skin surgery in patients with and without known diabetes

Dermatologic Surgery

Volumn 35, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1035-1040

  Dixon, Anthony J ^a,b,c   Dixon, Mary P ^d   Dixon, John B ^e  

^a Bond University ^*  (Australia)

^b BOND UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c Skin Alert Skin Cancer Clinics   (Australia)

^d Skincanceronly   (Australia)

^e BAKER IDI HEART AND DIABETES INSTITUTE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BASAL CELL CARCINOMA; CONTACT DERMATITIS; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIABETIC PATIENT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EXCISION; FEMALE; GRAFT NECROSIS; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION; INFECTION RATE; KELOID; LEG; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELANOCYTIC NEVUS; MELANOMA; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PAIN; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SKIN CARCINOMA; SKIN FLAP; SKIN GRAFT; SKIN INFECTION; SKIN SURGERY; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND CLOSURE; WOUND DEHISCENCE; WOUND DRESSING; WOUND HEALING;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DIABETES COMPLICATIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKIN; SKIN DISEASES;

EID: 67650723337     PISSN: 10760512     EISSN: 15244725     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1524-4725.2009.01180.x     Document Type: Article

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