The importance of limb preservation in the diabetic population

Journal of Diabetes and its Complications

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 227-231

  Evans, Karen Kim ^a   Attinger, Christopher E ^a   Al Attar, Ali ^a   Salgado, Christopher ^a   Chu, Carrie K ^a   Mardini, Samir ^a   Neville, Richard ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Below the knee amputation; Chopart amputation; Limb salvage; Lisfranc amputation; Transmetatarsal amputation

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANASTOMOSIS DEHISCENCE; ARTICLE; BELOW KNEE AMPUTATION; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; FOOT DISEASE; FOOT ULCER; FOREFOOT; GANGRENE; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; KNEE AMPUTATION; LEG AMPUTATION; LIMB PROSTHESIS; LIMB SALVAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; NECROSIS; OSTEOMYELITIS; PERIOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; AMPUTATION; ARTHROPATHY, NEUROGENIC; ARTIFICIAL LIMBS; DIABETIC FOOT; DIABETIC NEPHROPATHIES; FEMALE; FOOT; FOOT DISEASES; HUMANS; LEG; LIMB SALVAGE; MALE; MEDICAL RECORDS; MOBILITY LIMITATION; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 79959949294     PISSN: 10568727     EISSN: 1873460X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jdiacomp.2011.02.001     Document Type: Article

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