The diabetic foot, 4th ed

Focal Peripheral Neuropathies, 4th ed.

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Book Review: Clinical Research Design. 4th ed.

Although this is a comprehensive textbook on clinical research design, it takes the reader in a truly step by step manner in designing a clinical research. It starts with explaining what a clinical research is made of the “anatomy” and how it works the “physiology.” It then covers how to conceive a research question, writing research proposals and ends with explaining not commonly discussed sub...

Urogynecology and Reconstructive Pelvic Surgery. 4th ed.

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The diabetic Charcot foot.

THE DIABETIC FooT

Stage 0: later added, describes the Inflammation phase, characterHistory and Etiology The earliest record of neuropathic arthropathy includes Sir William Musgrave in 1703 contributing this disease process to a complication of venereal disease. Later on, the term “Charcot Foot” was formed after the accounts of Jean-Martin Charcot in the 1880s, as he noted neuropathic arthropathy among his patien...