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A retrospective analysis of amputation rates in diabetic patients: can lower extremity amputations be further prevented?

BACKGROUND: Lower extremity amputations are costly and debilitating complications in patients with diabetes mellitus (DM). Our aim was to investigate changes in the amputation rate in patients with DM at the Karolinska University Hospital in Solna (KS) following the introduction of consensus guideli...

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Autores principales: Alvarsson, Alexandra, Sandgren, Buster, Wendel, Carl, Alvarsson, Michael, Brismar, Kerstin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3362773/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22385577
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2840-11-18