THE DIABETIC NEUROPATHIES: TYPES, DIAGNOSIS AND MANAGEMENT
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The diabetic neuropathies: types, diagnosis and management.
Although over the years the considerable breakthroughs made in our understanding of diabetic neuropathy has come from both neurologists and diabetologists, in recent times (in the UK) it is diabetologists that have assumed the main clinical role in diagnosing and managing the most common neuropathy in the western world. It may therefore be that referral of patients with diabetic neuropathy from...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry
سال: 2003
ISSN: 0022-3050
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.74.suppl_2.ii15