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• Assobiomedica
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• Bale, et al.
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• Barzilay JI, et al.
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• Bryan, J.
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• Bunt TJ, et al.
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• Caputo GM, et al.
  The total contact cast: a method for treating neurophatic diabetic ulcers.
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• Caravaggi C., et al.
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• Catanzariti AR et al.
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• Cavanagh PR et al.
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• Cavanagh PR et al.
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• Clerici G. et al.
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  Oral Presentation in Neurodiab-Diabetic foot study group of the EASD Joint Meeting
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• Coleman W et al.
  Il piede diabetico.
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• D. Queen, et al.
  A dressing history.
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• Dealey, C.
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• Documento di Consenso Internazionale sul Piede Diabetico.
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• Dorros G, et al.
  Tibioperoneal (outflow lesion) angioplasty can be used as primary treatment in 235 patients with critical limb ischemia: five years follow-up.
  Circulation 2001; 104:2057-2062
  
  
• Emanuele MA, et al.
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  Diabetes Care. 1981;4:289-292
  
  
• Eneroth et al.
  Deep foot infections in patients with diabetes and foot ulcer: an entity with different characteristics, treatments, and prognosis.
  J Diabetes Complications. 1999 Sep-Dec;13(5-6):254-63
  
  
• Eneroth et al.
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  Foot Ankle Int. 1997 Nov;18(11):716-22
  
  
• Faglia E, et al.
  Feasibility and effectiveness of peripheral percutaneous transluminal angiolasty in diabetic subjects with foot ulcers.
  Diabetes Care. 1996; 19:1261-1264
  
  
• Faglia E, et al.
  Extensive use of peripheral angioplasty, especially infrapopliteal, in the treatment of ischemic foot ulcer: clinical results of a multicentric study of 221 consecutive diabetic subjects.
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• Faglia et al.
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  Diabetes Care.2001 ,24 (1); 78-83
  
  
• Fernando DJS et al.
  Relatioship of limited joint mobility to abnormal foot pressures and foot ulceration.
  Diabetes Care 14 : 8 - 11, 1991
  
  
• Fraser SC, et al.
  Percutaneous transluminal angioplasty of the infrapopliteal vessels: the evidence.
  Radiology 1996; 200:33-36
  
  
• Frykberg RG et al.
  Diabetic foot disorders. A clinical practice guideline.
  For the American College of Foot and Ankle Surgeons and the American College of Foot and Ankle Orthopedics and Medicine.
  J Foot Ankle Surg. 2000;Suppl:1-60
  
  
• Garbalosa JC, et al.
  Foot function in diabetic patients after partial amputation.
  Foot Ankle Int 1996;17:43-48
  
  
• Gates J, et aò.
  Optimized diagnostic angiography in high-risk patients with severe peripheral vascular disease.
  Radiographics 2000; 20:121-133
  
  
• Gelbart, et al.
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• Grollman J, et al.
  Recurrent symptoms following lower extremity angioplasty: claudication and threatened limb.
  American College of Radiology. ACR Appropriateness Criteria.
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• Hartemann-Heurtier A, et al.
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• Holstein PE, et al.
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  Diabetes Care. 1999;22 Suppl 2 B97-B103
  
  
• Isner JM, et al.
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  Circulation. 1993;88:1534-1557
  
  
• Jude EB, et al.
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  Diabetes Care. 2001; 24:1433-1437
  
  
• Knight, B.
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• Kumpe DA, et al.
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• Lang GC, et al.
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• Leaper, D.
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• Levin EM et al.
  Preventing amputation in the patients with diabetes.
  Diabetes Care10 : 1383-1394, 1995
  
  
• Logerfo FW, et al.
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  Arch Surg. 1992;127:617-620
  
  
• London NJ, et al.
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• Lord M, et al.
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• M. Romanelli
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• M. Romanelli.
  Le medicazioni avanzate.
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• Myerson M, et al.
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• Ouriel K.
  Peripheral arterial disease.
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• Ovington L. G.
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  Wounds 1998; 10 Suppl. A: 1A-11A
  
  
• Papavassiliou VG, et al.
  Techniques for the endovascular management of complications following lower limb percutaneous transluminal angioplasty.
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• Parfrey PS, et al.
  Contrast material-induced renal failure in patients with diabetes mellitus, renal insufficiency, or both.
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• Pentecost MJ, et al.
  Guidelines for peripheral percutaneous transluminal angioplasty of the abdominal aorta and lower extremity vessels.
  A statement for health professionals from a special writing group of the Councils on Cardiovascular Radiology, Arteriosclerosis, Cardio-Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, Clinical Cardiology, and Epidemiology and Prevention, the American Heart Association.
  Circulation 1994; 89:511-531
  
  
• Piaggesi A, et al.
  Polyurethane foam sheets for relieving pressure from diabetic neurophatic plantar ulcers : a pilot study.
  
  
• Piaggesi A, et al.
  Semiquantitative analysis of the histopathological features of the neuropathic foot ulcer: effects of pressure relief.
  Diabetes Care. 2003 Nov;26(11):3123-8
  
  
• Piaggesi A.
  La terapia locale delle lesioni nel piede diabetico.
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  Ed. Springer. 2000
  
  
• Pomposelli FB Jr, et al.
  Dorsalis pedis arterial bypass: durable limb salvage for foot ischemia in patients with diabetes mellitus.
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• Pomposelli FB, Campbell DR.
  Vascular surgery for the diabetic foot.
  In: Veves A, Giurini JM, Logerfo FW eds The Diabetic Foot
  Humana Press 2002: 411-428
  
  
• Qeen, D, et al.
  A dressing history.
  International wound journal 2004; 1 (1): 59-77
  
  
• Rovee, Kurowsky, et al.
  Effect of local environment in epidermal wound healing.
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• Shaw J, et al.
  Analysis of dynamic forces transmitted through the foot in diabetic neuropathy.
  Diabetes Care 11 : 1955 - 1959, 1998
  
  
• Sinacore DR, et al.
  Diabetic plantar ulcers treated by total contact casting: a clinical report.
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• Soder HK, ey al.
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• Spencer S.
  Pressure relieving interventions for preventing and treating diabetic foot ulcers (Cochrane Review).
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• Stevens MJ, at al.
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• TASC TransAtlantic Inter-Society Consensus (TASC).
  Management of peripheral arterial disease (PAD).
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• Turner T. D.
  The development of wound management products.
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• Uccioli L, et al.
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• Van Damme H, et al.
  Amputations in diabetic patients: a plea for footsparing surgery.
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• Walsh CH.
  A healed ulcer: what now?
  Diabetic Medicine, 1996;13(suppl1)S58-S60
  
  
• Willi, P, at al.
  Chitosan and alginate wound dressings: a short review.
  Trends Biomater. Artif. Organs 2004; 18 (1): 18-23
  
  
• Winter G.D.
  Formation of the scab and the rate of epithelialization of superficial wounds in the skin of the young domestic pig.
  Nature 1962; 193: 4812, 293-294