The intraepidermal nerve fibers density assessment in skin biopsies in polyneuropathy patients;Hodnocení intraepidermální hustoty tenkých nervových vláken z kožní biopsie u pacientů s polyneuropatií

Ceska a Slovenska Neurologie a Neurochirurgie

Volumn 68, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 219-226

  Moravcova E ^a   Bednarik J ^a   Feit, J ^a   Sommer, C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BRNO   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Intraepidermal nerve fibers; Protein gene product 9.5; Skin biopsy; Small fiber neuropathy; Thermal threshold testing

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CELL COUNT; CELL DENSITY; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EPIDERMIS; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; METHODOLOGY; NERVE FIBER; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; POLYNEUROPATHY; PUNCH BIOPSY; REFERENCE VALUE; SCREENING TEST; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SKIN BIOPSY; STAINING; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; VOLUNTEER;

EID: 23144433851     PISSN: 12107859     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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