Can The Extensor Digitorum Brevis Muscle Flap Help Salvage A Diabetic Limb With Osteomyelitis?

Volume 26 - Issue 3 - March 2013
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Ronald Belczyk, DPM, AACFAS, and Visoth Chan, DPM

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