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Lower extremity amputations and long-term outcomes in diabetic foot ulcers: A systematic review

BACKGROUND: Diabetes mellitus causes a large majority of non-traumatic major and minor amputations globally. Patients with diabetes are clinically complex with a multifactorial association between diabetic foot ulcers (DFU) and subsequent lower extremity amputations (LEA). Few studies show the long-...

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Autores principales: Rathnayake, Ayeshmanthe, Saboo, Apoorva, Malabu, Usman H, Falhammar, Henrik
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Baishideng Publishing Group Inc 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7503503/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32994867
http://dx.doi.org/10.4239/wjd.v11.i9.391