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KMID : 0361619920270020480
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Journal of the Korean Orthopaedic Association
1992 Volume.27 No. 2 p.480 ~ p.487
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A Clinical Study on the Diabetic Foot
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조현오
곽경덕/조성도/백승창/손양현
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Abstract
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The authors reviewed 56 cases with diabetic foot problems who have undergone at the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Dong Kang Hospital from 1984 to June, 1990. In addition, we analyzed the electrophysiologic changes obtained from one hundred
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diabetic patients who were selected randomly from outpatient clinic at the Department of the Internal Medicine.
@ES The results are summerzed as follows:
@EN 1. Nerve conduction study was helpful in early detection of diabetic neuropathic foot.
2. 87% of diabetic patients presented peripheral polyneuropathy.
3. Diabetic neuropathy involved median, sural and peroneal nerves more commonly than ay others and sensory fibers than motor ones.
4. Primary healing was more common in patients with serum albumin level over 3.0gm/dl and hemoglobin level over 12.0mg/dl.
5. Shoe modification and total contact cast were effective in management of early diabetic foot lesions.
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