A survey of offloading practices for diabetes-related plantar neuropathic foot ulcers

Journal of Foot and Ankle Research

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Raspovic, Anita ^a   Landorf, Karl B ^a  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Diabetic foot; Diabetic neuropathies; Foot ulcer

Indexed keywords

EID: 84910066686     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17571146     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13047-014-0035-8     Document Type: Article

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