Surgical treatment of superimposed, lower extremity, peripheral nerve entrapments with diabetic and idiopathic neuropathy

Annals of Plastic Surgery

Volumn 70, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 675-679

  Valdivia, Juan Martin Valdivia ^a   Weinand, Martin ^b   Maloney, Christopher T ^c   Blount, Andrew L ^c   Dellon, Arnold Lee ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c Plastic Surgery   (United States)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Diabetic Neuropathy; Idiopathic Neuropathy; Nerve Compression Syndromes; Tarsal Tunnel Syndrome

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMPLICATION; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; DIABETIC NEUROPATHY; EVALUATION STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYPESTHESIA; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE COMPRESSION SYNDROMES; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PERONEAL NEUROPATHIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SELF REPORT; TIBIAL NEUROPATHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT; ARTICLE; NERVE COMPRESSION; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PERONEAL NEUROPATHY; TARSAL TUNNEL SYNDROME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHRONIC DISEASE; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; DIABETIC NEUROPATHIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; HYPESTHESIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE COMPRESSION SYNDROMES; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PERONEAL NEUROPATHIES; POSTURAL BALANCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SELF REPORT; TIBIAL NEUROPATHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84879097911     PISSN: 01487043     EISSN: 15363708     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SAP.0b013e3182764fb0     Document Type: Article

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