Total contact casts were better than removable cast walkers or half shoes for healing diabetic neuropathic foot ulcers
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Total contact casts were better than removable cast walkers or half shoes for healing diabetic neuropathic foot ulcers.
Patients 75 patients with diabetes who had clinically significant loss of protective sensation ( > 25 V) as measured with a biothesiometer, >1 palpable foot pulse or a transcutaneous oximetry measurement > 40 mm Hg at the dorsum of the fore foot, and a superficial neuropathic plantar diabetic foot ulcer corresponding to grade 1A (University of Texas Diabetic Wound Classification System). Exclus...
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عنوان ژورنال: Evidence-Based Nursing
سال: 2002
ISSN: 1367-6539
DOI: 10.1136/ebn.5.1.15