Corneal confocal microscopy detects neuropathy in patients with type 1 diabetes without retinopathy or microalbuminuria

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2015, Pages

  Petropoulos, Ioannis N ^a,b   Green, Patrick ^a   Chan, Agnes W S ^c   Alam, Uazman ^a   Fadavi, Hassan ^a   Marshall, Andrew ^a   Asghar, Omar ^a   Efron, Nathan ^d   Tavakoli, Mitra ^a   Malik, Rayaz A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Qatar)

^c QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIABETIC NEPHROPATHY; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IN VIVO CORNEAL CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROALBUMINURIA; MOTOR NERVE CONDUCTION; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; SENSORY NERVE CONDUCTION; VIBRATION SENSE; AGED; ALBUMINURIA; COMPLICATION; CORNEA; DIABETIC NEUROPATHIES; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBER; PATHOLOGY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

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

EID: 84929493045     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0123517     Document Type: Article

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