Osteomyelitis of the Foot and Toe in Adults Is a Surgical Disease: Conservative Management Worsens Lower Extremity Salvage

OBJECTIVE: To characterize the national epidemiology of adult osteomyelitis (OM) and, using a single institutions’ experience, test the hypothesis that early surgical therapy as compared with antibiotics alone results in an improved chance of wound healing and limb salvage. BACKGROUND: Foot and digi...

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Main Authors: Henke, Peter K., Blackburn, Susan A., Wainess, Reid W., Cowan, John, Terando, Alicia, Proctor, Mary, Wakefield, Thomas W., Upchurch, Gilbert R., Stanley, James C., Greenfield, Lazar J.
Formato: Artigo
Idioma:Inglês
Publicado: 2005
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Acceso en liña:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1357594/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15912038
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1097/01.sla.0000164172.28918.3f
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