Increased sural nerve epineurial blood flow in human subjects with painful diabetic neuropathy

Diabetologia

Volumn 46, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 934-939

  Eaton, S E M ^a   Harris, N D ^a   Ibrahim, S ^a   Patel, K A ^a   Selmi, F ^a   Radatz, M ^a   Ward, J D ^a   Tesfaye, S ^a  

^a ROYAL HALLAMSHIRE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Diabetes mellitus; Diabetic neuropathy; Epineurium; Fluorescein angiography; Hypoxia; Pain; Painful; Spectrophotometry

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES CONTROL; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIABETIC NEUROPATHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE ANGIOGRAPHY; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HYPOXIA; MALE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; OXYGEN SATURATION; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; SURAL NERVE; SYMPTOM;

BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; DIABETIC NEUROPATHIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR NEURONS; NEURAL CONDUCTION; NEURALGIA; NEURONS, AFFERENT; OXYGEN; PERONEAL NERVE; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; SURAL NERVE;

EID: 0042071581     PISSN: 0012186X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00125-003-1127-3     Document Type: Article

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