Corneal confocal microscopy detects small fiber damage in chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP)

Journal of the Peripheral Nervous System

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 322-327

  Schneider, Christian ^a   Bucher, Franziska ^a   Cursiefen, Claus ^a   Fink, Gereon R ^a,b   Heindl, Ludwig M ^a   Lehmann, Helmar C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

axonal degeneration; CIDP; confocal microscopy; small fiber

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CELL DENSITY; CHRONIC INFLAMMATORY DEMYELINATING POLYNEUROPATHY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA; DENDRITIC CELL; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NERVE FIBER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY NERVE; SMALL FIBER NEUROPATHY; VERY ELDERLY; CLINICAL TRIAL; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; POLYRADICULONEUROPATHY, CHRONIC INFLAMMATORY DEMYELINATING; PROCEDURES;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CORNEA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBERS; POLYRADICULONEUROPATHY, CHRONIC INFLAMMATORY DEMYELINATING;

EID: 84922830967     PISSN: 10859489     EISSN: 15298027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jns.12098     Document Type: Article

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