Question 6 of 10 Assessment of a client with diabetes reveals that the toes are dark in color and the skin is shrunken and wrinkled, with a clear delineation between affected and unaffected regions. This client likely has: O wet gangrene. O liquefactive gangrene. O gas gangrene. O dry gangrene.
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