Denervation of eccrine glands in patients with familial amyloidotic polyneuropathy type I

Neurology

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 714-721

  Ohnishi, Akio ^a,d   Yamamoto, T ^a   Murai, Y ^a   Ando, Y ^b   Ando, M ^b   Hoshii, Y ^c   Ikeda, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

^b KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYLOID NEUROPATHY; ANHIDROSIS; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC DENERVATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FAMILIAL DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; NERVE DEGENERATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN BIOPSY; SURAL NERVE; SWEAT GLAND;

EID: 0031781966     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.51.3.714     Document Type: Article

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