Mononeuropathy in diabetes mellitus: a phenomenon easily overlooked.
In patients with diabetes, a carefully taken history and meticulously performed neurologic examination enable the clinician to separate superimposed mononeuropathy from more generalized symmetric polyneuropathy. Recognition of mononeuroparhy is important, since often it is reversible.
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