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Amputation associated with diabetic foot ulcer (DFU). The costs to the healthcare system and to the patient increase as the DFU progresses to amputation. Healing of the ulcer avoids the complications associated with chronic nonhealing wounds. To see this illustration in color, the reader is referred to the web version of this article at www.liebertpub.com/wound
