A quantitative assessment of healing sandals and postoperative shoes in offloading the neuropathic diabetic foot

Journal of Foot and Ankle Surgery

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 28-30

  Giacalone, Vincent F ^b   Armstrong, David G ^a,c,e   Ashry, Hisham R ^b   Lavery, David C ^d   Harkless, Lawrence B ^a   Lavery, Lawrence A ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^b Diabetic Foot Care Center   (United States)

^c Diabetic Foot Research Group   (United States)

^d UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY   (United States)

^e Department of Orthopaedics ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

diabetes mellitus; foot; neuropathy; pressure; shoe

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIABETIC FOOT; DIABETIC NEUROPATHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; SHOE; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 8044261992     PISSN: 10672516     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1067-2516(97)80007-5     Document Type: Article

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