Outcomes of three years of teamwork on critical limb ischemia in patients with diabetes and foot lesions

International Journal of Lower Extremity Wounds

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 113-119

  Scatena, Alessia ^a   Petruzzi, Pasquale ^a   Ferrari, Mauro ^a   Rizzo, Loredana ^a   Cicorelli, Antonello ^a   Berchiolli, Raffaella ^a   Goretti, Chiara ^a   Bargellini, Irene ^a   Adami, Daniele ^a   Iacopi, Elisabetta ^a   Del Corso, Andrea ^a   Cioni, Roberto ^a   Piaggesi, Alberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

critical limb ischemia; diabetes; diabetic foot; revascularization; teamwork

Indexed keywords

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; AGED; AMPUTATION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITICAL LIMB ISCHEMIA; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIABETIC FOOT; FEMALE; FOOT DISEASE; HUMAN; LEG AMPUTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGIST; RECURRENT DISEASE; REVASCULARIZATION; SKIN ULCER; TEAMWORK; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMPUTATION; ANGIOPLASTY; DIABETIC FOOT; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISCHEMIA; LIMB SALVAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR PATENCY; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 84861983752     PISSN: 15347346     EISSN: 15526941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1534734612448384     Document Type: Article

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