Lower extremity amputations in persons with and without diabetes in Italy: 2001-2010

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Lombardo, Flavia L ^a   Maggini, Marina ^a   De Bellis, Alessandra ^b   Seghieri, Giuseppe ^b   Anichini, Roberto ^b  

^a ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^b Pistoia General Hospital   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; ITALY; LEG AMPUTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; SEX RATIO; AMPUTATION; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; DIABETIC FOOT; LEG; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SURGERY; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMPUTATION; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; DIABETIC FOOT; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; ITALY; LOWER EXTREMITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 84900319566     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0086405     Document Type: Article

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