Sympathetic skin responses in hereditary sensory and autonomic neuropathy and familial amyloid neuropathy are different

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 22, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 1283-1286

  Shivji, Zaitoon M ^a   Ashby, Peter ^a  

^a TORONTO WESTERN HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Familial amyloid polyneuropathy; Hereditary sensory and autonomic neuropathy; Small fiber neuropathy; Sympathetic skin response

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMYLOID NEUROPATHY; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NEUROPATHY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE DURATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPOALGESIA; NERVE POTENTIAL; NEUROPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY NERVE; SYMPATHETIC TONE;

EID: 0032819603     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-4598(199909)22:9<1283::aid-mus19>3.0.co;2-#     Document Type: Article

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