Truncal pruritus of unknown origin may be a symptom of diabetic polyneuropathy

Diabetes Care

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 150-155

  Yamaoka, Hiroyuki ^a   Sasaki, Hideyuki ^a   Yamasaki, Hiroshi ^a   Ogawa, Kenichi ^a   Ohta, Takayuki ^a   Furuta, Hiroto ^a   Nishi, Masahiro ^a   Nanjo, Kishio ^a  

^a WAKAYAMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACHILLES REFLEX; ADULT; AREFLEXIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIABETIC NEUROPATHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROPATHY; PARAMETER; PREVALENCE; PRURITUS;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DIABETIC NEUROPATHIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRURITUS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 74249117614     PISSN: 01495992     EISSN: 19355548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2337/dc09-0632     Document Type: Article

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