Editorial Open Access
Volume 2 | Issue 4 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.33696/diabetes.1.026
The Impact of COVID-19 on Diabetic Foot Care
Stella Papachristou, Nikolaos Papanas1, *
- 1Diabetes Centre-Diabetic Foot Clinic, Second Department of Internal Medicine, Democritus University of Thrace, Alexandroupolis, Greece
Corresponding Author
Nikolaos Papanas, papanasnikos@yahoo.gr
Received Date: December 14, 2020
Accepted Date: December 22, 2020
Papachristou S, Papanas N. The Impact of COVID-19 on Diabetic Foot Care. J Diabetes Clin Res. 2020; 2(4):106-108.
Copyright: © 2020 Papachristou S, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Keywords
COVID-19, Diabetic foot, Diabetic mellitus, Healthcare management
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