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Lesions at the tip of the toes are frequent and their treatment is probably one of the best examples of the advantages of integrating internal and external offloading.
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Hochlenert, D., Engels, G., Morbach, S., Schliwa, S., Game, F.L. (2018). Tips of the Toes (1–2). In: Diabetic Foot Syndrome. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92055-9_6
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