Quantified sensory abnormalities in early genetically verified transthyretin amyloid polyneuropathy

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 189-195

  Heldestad, Victoria ^a,b   Nordh, Erik ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b SWEDISH DEFENCE RESEARCH AGENCY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Amyloidosis; QST; Quantitative sensory testing; Small fiber neuropathy; Thermal thresholds; Transthyretin

Indexed keywords

METHIONINE; PREALBUMIN; VALINE;

ADULT; AMYLOID NEUROPATHY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; FUNCTION TEST; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; MALE; POLYNEUROPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE SENSORY TESTING; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; THERMAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AMYLOID NEUROPATHIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; METHIONINE; PERIPHERAL NERVES; PREALBUMIN; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SOMATOSENSORY DISORDERS; TEMPERATURE; VALINE;

EID: 33846944682     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: 10974598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mus.20689     Document Type: Article

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