Spinal cord lesions in diabetes mellitus. Somatosensory and motor evoked potentials and spinal conduction time in diabetes mellitus

Neuroendocrinology Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 143-147

  Kučera, Pavol ^a   Goldenberg, Zoltán ^a   Varsik, Pavel ^a   Buranová, Darina ^a   Traubner, Pavel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BRATISLAVA   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Central conduction time; Diabetic complications; Diabetic neuropathy; Motor evoked potentials; Peripheral conduction time; Somatosensory evoked potentials

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NEUROPATHY; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DISEASE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIABETIC NEUROPATHY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LATENT PERIOD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; MYELINATED NERVE; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE STIMULATION; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; PERONEUS NERVE; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD LESION; TIME; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 18744398478     PISSN: 0172780X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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