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ReviewSchmerz (Berlin, Germany)2024

[Diagnostic workup for polyneuropathy].

Caroline Eilers-Petri, Annika Oberhagemann, Mathias Mäurer

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Review in Schmerz (Berlin, Germany), 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Caroline Eilers-PetriKlinik für Neurologie und neurologische Frührehabilitation, Klinikum Würzburg Mitte gGmbH, Salvatorstraße 7, 97070, Würzburg, Deutschland. caroline.eilers-petri@kwm-klinikum.de.
Annika OberhagemannKlinik für Neurologie und neurologische Frührehabilitation, Klinikum Würzburg Mitte gGmbH, Salvatorstraße 7, 97070, Würzburg, Deutschland.
Mathias MäurerKlinik für Neurologie und neurologische Frührehabilitation, Klinikum Würzburg Mitte gGmbH, Salvatorstraße 7, 97070, Würzburg, Deutschland.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Polyneuropathy is a disease of the peripheral nervous system that usually results in distally emphasized, often symmetrical sensory and motor stimulation and deficits. These are often extremely painful. They can be divided into hereditary and acquired causes; inflammatory and infectious causes should be further differentiated among the acquired causes. A careful diagnostic workup is essential. Clinical signs and distribution patterns of symptoms can often already provide clues to the underlying aetiology. This review describes this workup, which in addition to the medical history and clinical examination always includes thorough laboratory diagnostics, electrophysiological examination and cerebrospinal fluid diagnostics. In individual cases, further diagnostic steps may be necessary in order to make the correct diagnosis.

Indexed as

PolyneuropathiesDiagnosis, DifferentialElectrodiagnosisHumansMedical History TakingNeurologic ExaminationPhysical ExaminationCerebrospinal fluid analysisElectrophysiological examinationNerve biopsyPolyneuropathies/etiologyPolyneuropathies/medical history taking

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