FIGURE 1  Nerve biopsy findings in length-dependent diabetic polyneuropathy

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Diabetic neuropathy—a review

Gérard Said

Nature Clinical Practice Neurology (2007) 3, 331-340
doi:10.1038/ncpneuro0504

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Figure 1.  Nerve biopsy findings in length-dependent diabetic polyneuropathy

1 microm-thick sections of superficial peroneal nerve biopsy specimens of two insulin-dependent diabetic patients in their 30s with a severe length-dependent diabetic polyneuropathy. (A) This patient had a severe small-fiber sensory and autonomic polyneuropathy. (B) This patient had a severe length-dependent sensory, autonomic and motor deficit. The arrows point to the marked thickening of capillaries walls in the endoneurium.

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