Corneal nerve loss detected with corneal confocal microscopy is symmetrical and related to the severity of diabetic polyneuropathy

Diabetes Care

Volumn 36, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 3646-3651

  Petropoulos, Ioannis N ^a   Alam, Uazman ^a,b   Fadavi, Hassan ^a   Asghar, Omar ^a   Green, Patrick ^a   Ponirakis, Georgios ^a   Marshall, Andrew ^c   Boulton, Andrew J M ^a,b   Tavakoli, Mitra ^a   Malik, Rayaz A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b MANCHESTER ROYAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

^c MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA DISEASE; CORNEAL NERVE BRANCH DENSITY; CORNEAL NERVE FIBER DENSITY; CORNEAL NERVE FIBER LENGTH; CORNEAL NERVE LOSS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIABETIC NEUROPATHY; DIABETIC PATIENT; DIABETIC SENSORIMOTOR NEUROPATHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; HUMAN; IN VIVO CORNEAL CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; SENSATION; SENSORIMOTOR NEUROPATHY; TORTUOSITY COEFFICIENT; VISUAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS; AGED; COMPLICATION; CORNEA; DIABETIC NEUROPATHIES; FEMALE; INNERVATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBER; PATHOLOGY;

ADULT; AGED; CORNEA; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; DIABETIC NEUROPATHIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBERS;

EID: 84891879310     PISSN: 01495992     EISSN: 19355548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2337/dc13-0193     Document Type: Article

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