Awaiting autoamputation: A primary management strategy for toe gangrene in diabetic foot disease

Diabetes Care

Volumn 34, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Fikri, Rami ^a   Bicknell, Colin D ^a   Bloomfield, Linda M ^a   Lyons, Sean P R ^a   Samarasinghe, Dunisha G ^a   Gibbs, Richard G J ^a   Valabhji, Jonathan ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE HEALTHCARE NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; FOOT AMPUTATION; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY GRAFT; MALE; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVASCULARIZATION; TOE GANGRENE; AMPUTATION; DIABETIC FOOT; GANGRENE; LETTER; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY;

ADULT; AMPUTATION; DIABETIC FOOT; FEMALE; GANGRENE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84855985359     PISSN: 01495992     EISSN: 19355548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2337/dc11-0848     Document Type: Article

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