A case of diabetic amyotrophy with severe atrophy and weakness of shoulder girdle muscles showing good response to intravenous immune globulin

Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice

Volumn 75, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 107-110

  Wada, Yuko ^a   Yanagihara, Chie ^a   Nishimura, Yo ^a   Oka, Nobuyuki ^b  

^a NISHI KOBE MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^b National Hospital Organization Minami Kyoto Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Diabetic amyotrophy; Diabetic proximal neuropathy; Insulin dependent diabetes mellitus; Intravenous immune globulin

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIABETIC AMYOTROPHY; DIABETIC NEUROPATHY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MUSCLE ATROPHY; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NERVE BIOPSY; NERVE FIBER DEGENERATION; NEUROPATHOLOGY; SHOULDER GIRDLE; SURAL NERVE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ATROPHY; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1; DIABETIC NEUROPATHIES; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULINS, INTRAVENOUS; IMMUNOLOGIC FACTORS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33845199322     PISSN: 01688227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diabres.2006.05.006     Document Type: Article

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