Sonographic evaluation of the peripheral nerve in diabetic patients: The relationship between nerve conduction studies, echo intensity, and cross-sectional area

Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 697-708

  Watanabe, Tsuneo ^a,d   Ito, Hiroyasu ^c   Sekine, Ayako ^a,d   Katano, Yuriko ^a,d   Nishimura, Takashi ^a,d   Kato, Yoshihiro ^a   Takeda, Jun ^b   Seishima, Mitsuru ^c   Matsuoka, Toshio ^a  

^a GIFU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Department Diabetes and Endocrinology ^*  (United States)

^c Informative Clinical Medicine   (Japan)

^d GIFU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Crosssectional area; Diabetic neuropathy; Echo intensity; Median nerve; Sonography; Tibial nerve

Indexed keywords

ULTRASONIC IMAGING; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

CROSS SECTIONAL AREA; DIABETIC NEUROPATHY; ECHO INTENSITY; MEDIAN NERVES; TIBIAL NERVES;

DIAGNOSIS;

ADULT; AGED; ANATOMY; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIABETIC NEUROPATHY; ECHOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE CONDUCTION; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ADULT; AGED; ANATOMY, CROSS-SECTIONAL; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; DIABETIC NEUROPATHIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURAL CONDUCTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 77951968872     PISSN: 02784297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7863/jum.2010.29.5.697     Document Type: Article

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