[Strategies in the treatment of diabetic foot]

The experience of treatment of 709 patients with diabetic foot was analysed. The tactics of treatment had consisted of the foot immobilization, local antiinflammatory treatment or the antiseptic bandage application, the diabetic phlegmon opening, necrectomy, resection of the affected portion of the foot in the healthy tissues borders; the extremity amputation on the level of foot or hip. Supportive function of the foot was preserved in 97.5% of patients.