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Peripheral Neuropathy

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The term “peripheral neuropathy” covers a variety of clinical syndromes that affect numerous types of nerve cells and fibers, including motor, sensory, and autonomic fibers. Nearly all peripheral neuropathies affect all these fiber types to a certain degree. However, a single fiber type may be targeted exclusively, and may be affected most, to a greater extent in some disorders than others. There are four cardinal patterns of peripheral neuropathy, including polyneuropathy; a few clinically important polyneuropathies are described below:

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  1. Parkinson’s Clinic of Eastern Toronto and Movement Disorders Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada

    Abdul Qayyum Rana

  2. McMaster University Department of Medicine, Hamilton, ON, Canada

    Ali T. Ghouse

  3. Department of Neurology, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA

    Raghav Govindarajan

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Rana, A.Q., Ghouse, A.T., Govindarajan, R. (2017). Peripheral Neuropathy. In: Neurophysiology in Clinical Practice. In Clinical Practice. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39342-1_10

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