Multimodal therapy as an algorithm to limb salvage in diabetic patients with large heel ulcers

International Wound Journal

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 132-138

  Goudie, Ewan B ^a   Gendics, Cynthia ^b   Lantis, John C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b ST LUKE S ROOSEVELT HOSPITAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Clinics; Evidence; Infection; Wounds

Indexed keywords

RECOMBINANT PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ANKLE BRACHIAL INDEX; ARTICLE; BELOW KNEE AMPUTATION; BONE SCINTISCANNING; BYPASS SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEBRIDEMENT; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIABETIC FOOT; DIABETIC PATIENT; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALING; HEEL; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; LIMB SALVAGE; MALE; MOBILIZATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OSTEOMYELITIS; PARTIAL CALCANECTOMY; PEROPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVASCULARIZATION; SEPSIS; VACUUM ASSISTED CLOSURE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMPUTATION; CALCANEUS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DIABETIC FOOT; FEMALE; HEEL; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; LIMB SALVAGE; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; MIDDLE AGED; NEGATIVE-PRESSURE WOUND THERAPY; OSTEOMYELITIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VEINS;

EID: 84858282370     PISSN: 17424801     EISSN: 1742481X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-481X.2011.00869.x     Document Type: Article

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