LABORATORY TESTING IN PERIPHERAL NERVE DISEASE - 11/09/11
Riassunto |
The most successful peripheral nerve diagnosticians use a sequence of differential diagnosis that first classifies the patient's neuropathy clinically:19
• | Time course
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• | Functional modalities affected
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• | Autonomic
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• | Age of onset |
• | Family history |
• | Other medical conditions |
The next step is electrodiagnostic testing to evaluate the nature of the underlying pathophysiology, and the last, appropriate laboratory tests. The focus of this article is on the rational use of laboratory testing. The economic implications of unfocused laboratory testing deserve emphasis. It is possible to spend as much as $1000 on serologic testing for antiglycolipid antibodies alone, for example. For this reason, this article discusses both the rational and irrational use of laboratory tests.
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| Address reprint requests to John W. Griffin, MD, Department of Neurology, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Meyer 6-109, 600 North Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD 21287 This work was supported in part by NIH NS 26643, RR00722, and a grant from Genentech, Inc. |
Vol 14 - N° 1
P. 119-133 - febbraio 1996 Ritorno al numero
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