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Diabetic foot infections in the elderly: primary amputation versus 'foot-sparing surgery'. A case report.

Leon LR, Psalms SB, Walters J

Vascular Surgery Section, Southern Arizona Veteran Affairs Health Care System (SAVAHCS), Tucson, AZ, USA and University of Arizona Health Science Center (AHSC), Tucson, AZ, USA.

Renal failure diabetic patients who present with lower extremity gangrene represent one of the most difficult problems encountered in a typical vascular practice. We report the hospital course and management of a 74-year-old male patient with such comorbidities, affected by a non healing ulcer that progressed into a large plantar abscess. Our case unfortunately mirrors a common method of evaluation and therapy of patients with such comorbidities and sets up the stage for a very controversial subject.

Published 24 December 2007 in Int Wound J, 4(4): 315-21.
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