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Foot assessment in GP practices for people with diabetes
Gaye Duncombe1, Pat Purser, A C Felix Burden
1Diabetes Care Unit, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust.
Nursing Times
|May 16, 2003
Abstract:
Diabetes increases the chance of lower-limb amputation: directly, as a result of ulcers caused by trauma and complicated by lack of sensation; and indirectly, by peripheral vascular disease. In any one patient both causes can occur.