Neale's Common Foot Disorders: Diagnosis and ManagementThis text is designed as a reference for students and professionals within podiatry and chiropody. Suitable for undergraduates, the book aims to help them pass exams and provides them with an overview of the scope of podiatry practice - the pathology and presenting features of the common conditions encountered, their diagnosis and management, and related therapeutics. The structure of the book makes it suitable for use both as a reference book and as a revision text. |
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... infection - this is the commonest form of infection in adults and is usually undiagnosed . • acute infection - after a long incubation period ( 1-6 months ) the clinical phase usually lasts for up to a month , after which most patients ...
... infection - this is the commonest form of infection in adults and is usually undiagnosed . • acute infection - after a long incubation period ( 1-6 months ) the clinical phase usually lasts for up to a month , after which most patients ...
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... infection control measures , which are essential to protect patients from both these , and other , infections . INFECTION CONTROL The modern term , infection control , reflects the realis- tic objective of reducing infection to the ...
... infection control measures , which are essential to protect patients from both these , and other , infections . INFECTION CONTROL The modern term , infection control , reflects the realis- tic objective of reducing infection to the ...
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... infection control . All individual control measures stem from the three basic strategies of infec- tion control ( Ayton 1981 , Lowbury et al 1981 ) : 1. elimination of sources and reservoirs of infection 2. disruption of transmission ...
... infection control . All individual control measures stem from the three basic strategies of infec- tion control ( Ayton 1981 , Lowbury et al 1981 ) : 1. elimination of sources and reservoirs of infection 2. disruption of transmission ...
Contents
Examination and assessment | 15 |
Radiological assessment for podiatrists | 33 |
The growing foot | 53 |
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