The impact of common variation in the definition of diabetic sensorimotor polyneuropathy on the validity of corneal in vivo confocal microscopy in patients with type 1 diabetes: A brief report

Journal of Diabetes and its Complications

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 240-242

  Halpern, Elise M ^a   Lovblom, Leif E ^a   Orlov, Steven ^a   Ahmed, Ausma ^a   Bril, Vera ^a   Perkins, Bruce A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Confocal microscopy; Corneal nerve fiber length; Diabetic neuropathy; Diabetic sensorimotor polyneuropathy; Diagnostic validity; Type 1 diabetes

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN A1C;

ADULT; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONSENSUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEAL NERVE FIBER LENGTH; DIABETIC NEUROPATHY; DIABETIC PATIENT; DIABETIC SENSORIMOTOR POLYNEUROPATHY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE DURATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; IN VIVO STUDY; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; VALIDITY; VISUAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS;

ADULT; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; COHORT STUDIES; CORNEA; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1; DIABETIC NEUROPATHIES; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, OPHTHALMOLOGICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBERS; POLYNEUROPATHIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84876909886     PISSN: 10568727     EISSN: 1873460X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jdiacomp.2012.10.011     Document Type: Article

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