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Corneal nerve fiber size adds utility to the diagnosis and assessment of therapeutic response in patients with small fiber neuropathy

Small fiber neuropathy (SFN) is a common feature of many inflammatory diseases, often presenting with pain and disability. SFN is diagnosed using symptoms, thermal threshold testing, and intra-epidermal nerve fiber quantification. Corneal confocal microscopy (CCM) is an ophthalmic imaging technique...

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Autores principales: Brines, Michael, Culver, Daniel A., Ferdousi, Maryam, Tannemaat, Martijn R., van Velzen, Monique, Dahan, Albert, Malik, Rayaz A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5856845/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29549285
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-23107-w