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Treatment of the diabetic foot – to amputate or not?

BACKGROUND: Diabetic foot infections are a frequent clinical problem. About 50% of patients with diabetic foot infections who have foot amputations die within five years. Properly managed most can be cured, but many patients needlessly undergo amputations because of improper diagnostic and therapeut...

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Autores principales: Weledji, Elroy P, Fokam, Pius
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4218993/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25344293
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2482-14-83