Achilles tendon lengthening: Friend or foe in the diabetic foot?

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 131, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Colen, Lawrence B ^a,b   Kim, Claudia J ^a,b   Grant, William P ^a,b   Yeh, Jiun Ting ^a,b   Hind, Baydoun ^a,b  

^a Department of Epidemiology Biostatistics ^*  (United States)

^b CHANG GUNG MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACHILLES TENDON; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIABETIC FOOT; EVALUATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLASTIC SURGERY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RECURRENT DISEASE; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS; TENOTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND CLOSURE;

ACHILLES TENDON; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DIABETIC FOOT; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RECURRENCE; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TENOTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND CLOSURE TECHNIQUES;

EID: 84872054863     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e3182729e0b     Document Type: Article

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