Diabetic foot amputations in Greece: Where do we go from here?

International Journal of Lower Extremity Wounds

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 4-5

  Papanas, N ^a   Lazarides, M K ^a  

^a DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABOVE KNEE AMPUTATION; BELOW KNEE AMPUTATION; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIABETIC FOOT; DISEASE DURATION; DYSLIPIDEMIA; EDITORIAL; FOLLOW UP; FOOT AMPUTATION; FOOT ULCER; GREECE; HYPERTENSION; ISCHEMIA; KIDNEY DISEASE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MORBIDITY; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPEAT PROCEDURE; RETINOPATHY; REVASCULARIZATION; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING; WOUND HEALING; WOUND INFECTION;

AMPUTATION; DIABETIC FOOT; FOOT; GREECE; HUMANS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 79953307900     PISSN: 15347346     EISSN: 15526941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1534734611400255     Document Type: Editorial

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