title: Generalized neuropathy in Taiwan: an etiologic survey.
abstract: From July 1988 to June 1989, the etiology was registered of 520 patients with generalized neuropathy in 5 neurological centers in Taiwan. The neuropathy was diabetic in 256 cases (49.23%), alcoholic in 45 (8.65%), inflammatory in 34 (6.53%; including 21 with acute inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy, 12 with chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy, and 1 with chronic relapsing polyneuropathy), 12 with associated malignancy (2.31%), 9 with dysproteinemia (1.73%), uremic in 22 (4.23%), hereditary motor and sensory in 22 (4.23%), toxic in 14 (2.69%), ischemic in 12 (2.31%), hypothyroidism in 10 (1.92%), nutritional deficiency and malabsorption in 6 (1.15%), chronic liver disease in 4 (0.77%), other diseases in 11 (2.12%) and unclassified in 63 (12.12%). This survey provided a crude etiological picture of generalized neuropathy on this island.
authors.affiliation: Veterans General Hospital.
authors.forename: K P
authors.initials: KP
authors.lastname: Lin
authors.forename: S Y
authors.initials: SY
authors.lastname: Kwan
authors.forename: S Y
authors.initials: SY
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: S S
authors.initials: SS
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: K B
authors.initials: KB
authors.lastname: Yeung
authors.forename: L G
authors.initials: LG
authors.lastname: Chia
authors.forename: Z A
authors.initials: ZA
authors.lastname: Wu
mesh_terms: D003711:Demyelinating Diseases / Q000150:complications; D048909:Diabetes Complications; D003929:Diabetic Neuropathies / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology; D004576:Electromyography; D005260:Female; D006753:Hospital Records / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009431:Neural Conduction; D010523:Peripheral Nervous System Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology*; D015995:Prevalence; D013624:Taiwan / Q000453:epidemiology