Epidemiology of distal symmetrical neuropathies in the Italian elderly
- 1 May 2007
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Neurology
- Vol. 68 (18) , 1460-1467
- https://doi.org/10.1212/01.wnl.0000260606.36443.29
Abstract
Objectives: To estimate prevalence and incidence of distal symmetric neuropathies (DSN) in the Italian elderly, and to evaluate the accuracy of our procedure to screen for DSN.Keywords
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