Amputation rate of diabetic foot ulcer and associated factors in diabetes mellitus patients admitted to Nekemte referral hospital, western Ethiopia: prospective observational study
Abstract Background Diabetes foot ulcer is a devastating and much-feared complication of diabetes. Diabetes foot ulcerations which developed gangrene can take weeks or months to heal and can sometimes not heal at all so that amputation for non-traumatic causes is a frequent outcome in the diabetic f...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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BMC
2020-11-01
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| Series: | Journal of Foot and Ankle Research |
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| Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13047-020-00433-9 |