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318. Deferring Amputation in Diabetic Foot Osteomyelitis: Doing more Harm than Good?

BACKGROUND: Diabetic foot osteomyelitis (DFO) is a leading cause of below knee amputation (BKA). Even when medical treatment is deemed unlikely to succeed, patients with DFO are often resistant to amputation. METHODS: An observational cohort analysis was done on patients with DFO at Michigan Medicin...

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Autores principales: Zhou, Shiwei, Schmidt, Brian M, Henig, Oryan, Kaye, Keith S
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7777884/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofaa439.514