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Neuropathic Pain
Neuropathic pain is one of the most frequent symptoms in neurological clinical practice. It is caused by a lesion or disease of the somatosensory system and encompasses a broad spectrum of pathologies ranging ...
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Sweating Disorders
Sweating is crucial for maintenance of body core temperature throughout a complex neuroendocrine mechanism. Sweating disturbances occur in peripheral and central nervous system disease as well as in endocrinop...
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Pupillary and Lacrimation Alterations
Due to in-depth neuroanatomical and functional knowledge, the clinical examination of the pupils is considered an indicator of optic nerve conduction, brainstem integrity, vigilance, and coma. The autonomic ne...
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Charcot–Marie–Tooth 2F: phenotypic presentation of the Arg136Leu HSP27 mutation in a multigenerational family
Mutations in the small heat-shock protein HSP27 gene are associated with distal hereditary motor neuropathy and with the axonal form of Charcot–Marie–Tooth disease type 2. We present the clinical and electrophys...
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MRI findings, patterns of disease distribution, and muscle fat fraction calculation in five patients with Charcot-Marie-Tooth type 2 F disease
To describe the magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) pattern of muscle involvement and disease progression in five patients with late-onset Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT) disease type 2 F, due to a previously unknown m...
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Open AccessEnterococcal meningitis caused by Enterococcus casseliflavus. First case report
Enterococcal meningitis is an uncommon disease usually caused by Enterococcus faecalis and Enterococcus faecium and is associated with a high mortality rate. Enterococcus casseliflavus has been implicated in a wi...
