Racial disparities in incidence of lower extremity primary amputations

Am J Surg. 2022 May;223(5):1020-1022. doi: 10.1016/j.amjsurg.2021.10.010. Epub 2021 Oct 19.

Authors

Jodi-Ann Edwards¹, Gabriel Kabarriti², Robert DiRaimo³, Robert S Kurtz³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Surgery, State University of New York Downstate Health Sciences University, Brooklyn, NY, USA. Electronic address: jodi-ann.edwards@downstate.edu.
² College of Medicine, State University of New York Downstate Health Sciences University, Brooklyn, NY, USA.
³ Department of Surgery, State University of New York Downstate Health Sciences University, Brooklyn, NY, USA.

PMID: 34711409
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjsurg.2021.10.010

No abstract available

Publication types

Editorial

MeSH terms

Amputation, Surgical*
Diabetic Foot*
Humans
Incidence
Lower Extremity / surgery
Racial Groups
Retrospective Studies