Diabetic foot reconstruction using free flaps increases 5-year-survival rate

Journal of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 243-250

  Oh, Tae Suk ^a   Lee, Ho Seung ^a   Hong, Joon Pio ^a  

^a University of Ulsan College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Diabetic foot; Free flap; Preoperative risk factor

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; HEMOGLOBIN A1C;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOPLASTY; ANKLE BRACHIAL INDEX; ANTEROLATERAL THIGH FLAP; ANTEROMEDIAL THIGH FLAP; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; DIABETIC FOOT; DIABETIC PATIENT; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FOOT RECONSTRUCTION; FOOT SURGERY; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; GRAFT FAILURE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEART DISEASE; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIMB SALVAGE; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; OSTEOMYELITIS; PERFORATOR FLAP; PERIPHERAL OCCLUSIVE ARTERY DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; SMOKING; SUPERFICIAL CIRCUMFLEX ILIAC ARTERY PERFORATOR FLAP; SURGICAL PATIENT; SURGICAL RISK; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UPPER MEDIAL THIGH FLAP;

COHORT STUDIES; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; DIABETIC FOOT; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FREE TISSUE FLAPS; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; LIMB SALVAGE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; ODDS RATIO; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84872362809     PISSN: 17486815     EISSN: 18780539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bjps.2012.09.024     Document Type: Article

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