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Shiwei Zhou1, Brian M Schmidt2, Oryan Henig3
1Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
Open Forum Infectious Diseases
|July 29, 2021
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In a cohort of patients with diabetic foot osteomyelitis who were recommended to undergo below-knee amputation, those who deferred amputation and chose medical therapy were more likely to die during the follow-up time compared with those who proceeded with amputation.
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