Rapid automated diagnosis of diabetic peripheral neuropathy with in vivo corneal confocal microscopy

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 2062-2070

  Petropoulos, Ioannis N ^a   Alam, Uazman ^b   Fadavi, Hassan ^a   Marshall, Andrew ^b   Asghar, Omar ^a   Dabbah, Mohammad A ^b   Chen, Xin ^b   Graham, James ^b   Ponirakis, Georgios ^a   Boulton, Andrew J M ^a   Tavakoli, Mitra ^a   Malik, Rayaz A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Corneal confocal microscopy; Diabetes; Diabetic neuropathy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIABETIC NEUROPATHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE FIBER DENSITY; NERVE FIBER LENGTH; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; RISK; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VIBRATION PERCEPTION THRESHOLD; VIBRATION SENSE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CORNEAL CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; INNERVATION; METHODOLOGY; NERVE FIBER; OPTIC NERVE; PATHOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

CORNEAL CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; DIABETES; DIABETIC NEUROPATHY;

CORNEA; DIABETIC NEUROPATHIES; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBERS; OPTIC NERVE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 84898714478     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.13-13787     Document Type: Article

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