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SUBMITTER: Rota E
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5027001 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
World journal of diabetes 20160901 17
Neuropathy is a common complication of diabetes mellitus (DM) with a wide clinical spectrum that encompasses generalized to focal and multifocal forms. Entrapment neuropathies (EN), which are focal forms, are so frequent at any stage of the diabetic disease, that they may be considered a neurophysiological hallmark of peripheral nerve involvement in DM. Indeed, EN may be the earliest neurophysiological abnormalities in DM, particularly in the upper limbs, even in the absence of a generalized pol ...[more]