Impaired warm and cold perception thresholds in leprosy skin lesions

Leprosy Review

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 110-121

  Villarroel, Manoel F ^a,b,d   Orsini, Maria Beatriz P ^a,c   Grossi, Maria Aparecida F ^a   Antunes, Carlos Mauricio F ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^b Departamento de Neurofisiologia Clinica do Hospital Ortopédico   (Brazil)

^c Unidade Básica de Saúde de Citrolândia   (Brazil)

^d NONE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COLD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEAT; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LEPROSY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PERIPHERAL NERVE INJURY; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SCHOOL CHILD; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SENSORY ANALYSIS; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN DEFECT; SKIN EXAMINATION; SKIN SENSATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEPROSY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SKIN; TEMPERATURE SENSE;

EID: 34548849472     PISSN: 03057518     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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