Georgetown University Hospital Dr. John Steinberg, a podiatrist at Georgetown University Hospital, holds a piece of synthetic skin at the hospital in Washington Sept. 28 before grafting it onto a diabetic's foot wound in an operation broadcast live to a meeting of doctors working to prevent diabetic limb amputations.

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'Limb-salvage teams' fight amputations from common diabetic foot sores

• By ncs-import
• October 1, 2007