Plantar Fat Grafting and Tendon Balancing for the Diabetic Foot Ulcer in Remission

We report on the use of free fat grafting as a means of redistributing normal and shear stress after healing of plantar diabetic foot wounds. Although fat augmentation (lipofilling) has been described previously as an approach to supplement defects and prevent atrophy, including use as an adjunct to...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Luu, Cynthia A., Larson, Ethan, Rankin, Timothy M., Pappalardo, Jennifer L., Slepian, Marvin J., Armstrong, David G.
Other Authors: Univ Arizona, Coll Med, Dept Surg, SALSA
Language:en
Published: LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS 2016
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10150/622406
http://arizona.openrepository.com/arizona/handle/10150/622406