[The surgical treatment of creeping infections along the flexor tendons of the foot in diabetics].
Creeping infections along the flexor tendons of the foot are taken to be a common underlying cause of limb amputation in diabetics. Usually the process originates from the toes, and spreads along the course of the long flexors. The procedure of selective resection of the tendons involved suggested enables to complete the surgical treatment with economical operative intervention--amputation of a single toe, or amputation at transmetatarsal level.
Gavrailov
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Petkov
R
R
D001424:Bacterial Infections / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery*; D017719:Diabetic Foot / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery*; D005528:Foot / Q000098:blood supply / Q000601:surgery*; D005734:Gangrene / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D007511:Ischemia / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery; D013710:Tendons / Q000601:surgery*
Khirurgichno lechenie na pŭlziashtite infektsii po fleksornite sukhozhiliia na khodiloto pri diabetno bolni.