Enlarged peripheral nerves

Practical Neurology

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 40-45

  Donaghy, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID PROTEIN; PHYTANIC ACID;

ACID FAST BACTERIUM; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; DEMYELINATING NEUROPATHY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ERYTHEMA; FAMILIAL AMYLOID POLYNEUROPATHY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HEREDITARY MOTOR SENSORY NEUROPATHY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPOPIGMENTATION; LEPROSY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOTOR NERVE; NERVE BIOPSY; NERVE FUNCTION; NERVE TUMOR; NEUROFIBROMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PALPATION; PAPULE; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; POLYNEUROPATHY; PRICK TEST; REFSUM DISEASE; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA; SARCOIDOSIS; SENSORY NERVE; SKIN DEFECT; SKIN NODULE;

EID: 0043173620     PISSN: 14747758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1474-7766.2003.00121.x     Document Type: Article

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