Clinical Study
Wound Morphology and Topography in the Diabetic Foot: Hurdles in Implementing Angiosome-Guided Revascularization
Table 3
Wound composition in diabetic feet (
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| Wound composition | | Revascularization strategy |
| Feet with toe wounds exclusively | 85 (45.9%) | | 85 anterior or posterior tibial artery revascularization | Feet with toe wounds and proximal wounds | 33 (17.8%) | | | Wounds that could be unambiguously classified | | | | All Some | 16 (8.6%) 5 (2.7%) | =21 | 2 additional peroneal artery revascularisation 14 additional argument for anterior tibial revascularisation 3 additional argument for posterior tibial revascularisation 2 proximal wounds suggest treatment of both tibial arteries | None | 12 (6.5%) | | ? | Feet with proximal wounds exclusively | 67 (36.2%) | | | Wounds that could be unambiguously classified | | | | All | 50 (27.0%) | =61 | 49 revascularization of a single BTK artery | Some | 11 (5.9%) | 12 revascularization of two BTK arteries | None | 6 (3.2%) | | ? |
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