title: [Prevention of leg ulcers in patients with diabetes].
abstract: This up-to-dating paper considers the risks for developing ulcers in lower extremities to which patients presenting diabetes mellitus are exposed along their entire lives. Diabetic ulcers pathogenesis is focused in order to subside nurses both in evaluating skin integrity's maintaining ability and in fitting the needed preventive interventions.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Enfermagem Médico-Cirúrgica da EEUSP.
authors.forename: S A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Grossi
mesh_terms: D017719:Diabetic Foot / Q000209:etiology / Q000451:nursing / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D006801:Humans; D009730:Nursing Assessment / Q000379:methods; D011322:Primary Prevention / Q000379:methods*; D012307:Risk Factors; D017592:Skin Care / Q000379:methods* / Q000451:nursing*