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Diagnosis of Diabetic Neuropathy

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Clinical Management of Diabetic Neuropathy

Part of the book series: Contemporary Endocrinology ((COE,volume 7))

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The diagnosis and staging of severity of the diabetic neuropathy plays an important role not only for following up patients in a daily clinical practice, but also for the conduction of research that studies the etiopathogenesis of the disease and the development of new therapeutic modalities.

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  1. Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

    Aristidis Veves MD

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Veves, A. (1998). Diagnosis of Diabetic Neuropathy. In: Veves, A. (eds) Clinical Management of Diabetic Neuropathy. Contemporary Endocrinology, vol 7. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-1816-6_4

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