Incidence and prevalence of small-fiber neuropathy: A survey in the Netherlands

Neurology

Volumn 81, Issue 15, 2013, Pages 1356-1360

  Peters, Martine J H ^a   Bakkers, Mayienne ^a   Merkies, Ingemar S J ^a,b   Hoeijmakers, Janneke G J ^a   Van Raak, Elisabeth P M ^a   Faber, Catharina G ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b Department of Orthopaedic Surgery   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANHIDROSIS; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CHRONIC INFLAMMATORY DEMYELINATING POLYNEUROPATHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIZZINESS; ELDERLY CARE; FEMALE; GUILLAIN BARRE SYNDROME; HEALTH SURVEY; HEART PALPITATION; HOT FLUSH; HUMAN; HYPERHIDROSIS; HYPERTHYROIDISM; HYPERTRIGLYCERIDEMIA; HYPERVITAMINOSIS; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICTURITION DISORDER; MONOCLONAL IMMUNOGLOBULINEMIA; NETHERLANDS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SARCOIDOSIS; SECONDARY HEALTH CARE; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; SMALL FIBER NEUROPATHY; STOMACH PARESIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ERYTHROMELALGIA; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84888230350     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0b013e3182a8236e     Document Type: Article

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