Change in the amputation profile in diabetic foot in a tertiary reference center: Efficacy of team working

Experimental and Clinical Endocrinology and Diabetes

Volumn 112, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 526-530

  Aksoy, D Y ^a   Gürlek, Alper ^a,b   Cetinkaya Y ^a   Oznur A ^a   Yazici, M ^a   Ozgur F ^a   Aydingoz U ^a   Gedik, O ^a  

^a HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b NONE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Amputation; Diabetes mellitus; Diabetic foot; Team work

Indexed keywords

ABOVE KNEE AMPUTATION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BELOW KNEE AMPUTATION; BOYD AMPUTATION; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIABETIC FOOT; DIABETIC FOOT CARE TEAM; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FOOT AMPUTATION; GANGRENE; GENERAL HOSPITAL; HUMAN; LIMB SALVAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; NURSE; ORTHOPEDICS; OSTEOMYELITIS; PARTIAL CALCANECTOMY; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RADIOLOGIST; RAY AMPUTATION; SURGEON; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYME AMPUTATION; TALONAVICULAR AMPUTATION; TEAMWORK; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMPUTATION; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; DIABETES COMPLICATIONS; DIABETIC FOOT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT CARE TEAM; PROGNOSIS; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 7644234127     PISSN: 09477349     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2004-821310     Document Type: Article

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