free tissue transfer in the management of non-traumatic lower extremity wounds in patients with diabetes

Date First Published:

June 6, 2012

Last Updated:

June 6, 2012

Report by:

Mohamed Altayeb Mussa and Edmund Fitzgerald O'Connor, Core surgical trainees (Mid Essex Hospital)

Search checked by:

Mohamed Altayeb Mussa, Mid Essex Hospital

Three-Part Question:

In [a diabetic patient with non-healing wound of lower limb] could [free tissue transfer techniques] reduce [the requirement for amputation]?