Sarcoidosis and small-fiber neuropathy

Current Pain and Headache Reports

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 201-206

  Tavee, Jinny ^a   Culver, Daniel ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Autoimmune; Pain; Sarcoidosis; Small fiber neuropathy

Indexed keywords

AMITRIPTYLINE; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; CAPSAICIN; CARBAMAZEPINE; DESIPRAMINE; DULOXETINE; GABAPENTIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; INFLIXIMAB; LAMOTRIGINE; LIDOCAINE; METHOTREXATE; NORTRIPTYLINE; OXCARBAZEPINE; OXYCODONE; PREGABALIN; STEROID; TOPIRAMATE; TRAMADOL;

ANTICHOLINERGIC SYNDROME; APLASTIC ANEMIA; ATAXIA; BURNING SENSATION; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL FEATURE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONSTIPATION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIET THERAPY; DIZZINESS; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG ERUPTION; EDEMA; ERYTHEMA; FATIGUE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; IMMUNOPATHOGENESIS; KINESIOTHERAPY; LARGE FIBER NEUROPATHY; LEUKOPENIA; LIFESTYLE MODIFICATION; LOADING DRUG DOSE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NAUSEA; NEPHROLITHIASIS; NERVE CONDUCTION; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROPATHOLOGY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARESTHESIA; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERIPHERAL EDEMA; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; PROGNOSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUANTITATIVE SENSORY TESTING; RECOMMENDED DRUG DOSE; REVIEW; SARCOIDOSIS; SARCOIDOSIS SMALL FIBER NEUROPATHY; SEDATION; SEIZURE; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; SIDE EFFECT; SKIN BIOPSY; STEVENS JOHNSON SYNDROME; WEIGHT GAIN; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; NERVE FIBERS; NEURALGIA; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; POLYNEUROPATHIES; SARCOIDOSIS;

EID: 79955881476     PISSN: 15313433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11916-011-0180-8     Document Type: Review

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