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What is Gangrene?

Jayne Robbie, Senior Lecturer in Diabetes Care, Specialist Podiatrist, explains what the word gangrene means and how you can recognise is in the foot of a person with Diabetes. She talks about the differences between dry and wet gangrene.

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