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Probing Ulcers to Detect Osteomyelitis
Arch Fam Med. 1999;8:402.
If bone was palpable when probing pedal ulcers in diabetic patients, osteomyelitis was likely. Bone was palpable by probe in 33 of 50 with osteomyelitis and 4 of 26 without. (JAMA. 1995;273:721-723.)
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