Limb-threatening and Life-threatening Diabetic Extremities: Clinical Patterns and Outcomes in 56 Patients

Journal of Foot and Ankle Surgery

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 43-46

  Bahebeck, Jean ^a   Sobgui, Eugene ^a   Fonfoe, Loic ^b   Nonga, Bernadette Ngo ^c   Mbanya, Jean Claude ^a   Sosso, Maurice ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YAOUNDÉ I   (Cameroon)

^b YAOUNDÉ CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Cameroon)

^c Faculty of Medicine   (Cameroon)

Author keywords

amputation; clinical pattern; debridement; morbidity; mortality; prognosis; surgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CELLULITIS; DEBRIDEMENT; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIABETIC FOOT; FEMALE; GAS GANGRENE; HAND INFECTION; HUMAN; LIMB AMPUTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NECROTIZING FASCIITIS; OSTEOMYELITIS; PROGNOSIS; WOUND HEALING;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMPUTATION; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CAMEROON; CELLULITIS; DEBRIDEMENT; DIABETES COMPLICATIONS; EXTREMITIES; FASCIITIS, NECROTIZING; FEMALE; GANGRENE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NECROSIS; OSTEOMYELITIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 72649083143     PISSN: 10672516     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.jfas.2009.08.011     Document Type: Article

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