OBJECTIVES This study aimed to evaluate the evidence available in the literature for the safety and efficacy of Dioscoreae Rhizoma(DR) for the treatment of peripheral neuropathy. METHODS Literature searches were performed in MEDLINE and three Korean medical databases up to April 2013. All studies evaluating the effects on peripheral neuropathy or the safety of DR monopreparations were conside...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To evaluate the psychometric properties of two adapted scales, one for functional status and one for peripheral neuropathy secondary to neurotoxic chemotherapy. DESIGN Repeated measures methodologic design conducted within a Gynecologic Oncology Group (GOG) phase III clinical trial that randomly assigned patients with advanced epithelial ovarian cancer to cisplatin and cycl...

Peripheral somatic nerve function was studied in 38 unselected diabetic children and 31 age and sex-matched healthy controls. Thirteen of the 38 diabetics had abnormal peripheral somatic nerve function tests (more than 3 SD below the mean for normals). Five of the 13 diabetic children had only abnormal peripheral nerve function (early asymptomatic neuropathy); seven of these 13 were abnormal bo...

An unusual case of hypereosinophilic syndrome is described which presented with peripheral neuropathy with no evidence of cardiac involvement. The response to steroid therapy is documented and the literature on peripheral neuropathy in hypereosinophilic syndrome is reviewed.