Accuracy of the neuropad test for the diagnosis of distal symmetric polyneuropathy in type 2 diabetes

Diabetes Care

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1378-1382

  Papanas, Nikolaos ^a   Paschos, Paschalis ^b   Papazoglou, Dimitrios ^a   Papatheodorou, Konstantinos ^a   Paletas, Konstantinos ^b   Maltezos, Efstratios ^a   Tsapas, Apostolos ^b,c  

^a DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIABETIC NEUROPATHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISTAL SYMMETRIC POLYNEUROPATHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROPAD TEST; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; REFERENCE VALUE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ADULT; AGED; COLOR; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; DIABETIC NEUROPATHIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; POLYNEUROPATHIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 80051959780     PISSN: 01495992     EISSN: 19355548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2337/dc10-2205     Document Type: Article

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