Soft tissue biomechanics of diabetic foot ulcers

Soft Tissue: Composition, Mechanisms of Injury and Repair

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1-32

  Lung, Chi Wen ^a,b   Jan, Yih Kuen ^b  

^a ASIA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

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