Juggling risk to reduce amputations: The three-ring circus of infection, ischemia and tissue loss-dominant conditions

Wound Medicine

Volumn 1, Issue , 2013, Pages 13-14

  Armstrong, David G ^a   Mills, Joseph L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPUTATION; ARTICLE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DYNAMICS; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; ISCHEMIA; PATIENT CARE; PHILOSOPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; WOUND CARE; WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 84883768017     PISSN: 22139095     EISSN: 22139109     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wndm.2013.03.002     Document Type: Article

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