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Skin Necrosis of Diabetic Foot and Its Management

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The chapter describes the statistics related to diabetic foot ulceration, pathology of necrosis formation, types of necrosis, and the current surgical management of diabetic foot skin necrosis.

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  1. Department of Plastic Surgery, Asan Medical Center, Univeristy of Ulsan, Seoul, Korea

    Joon Pio Hong MD, PhD, MMM

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  1. Department of Surgery Pôle EMMBRUN Wound Healing Unit, Montpellier University Hospital, Montpellier, France

    Luc Téot

  2. Department of Geriatrics Wound Healing Unit, Hôpital Rothschild, Paris, France

    Sylvie Meaume MD, PhD

  3. Division of Plastic Surgery, Department of Developmental and Reconstructive Medicine Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan

    Sadanori Akita

  4. Division of Vascular Surgery Section of Wound Healing and Tissue, University of Illinois Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA

    William J. Ennis DO, MBA

  5. Department of Dermatology, Hôpital Erasme Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium

    Veronique del Marmol

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Hong, J.P. (2015). Skin Necrosis of Diabetic Foot and Its Management. In: Téot, L., Meaume, S., Akita, S., Ennis, W.J., del Marmol, V. (eds) Skin Necrosis. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-1241-0_36

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