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Morphometric changes in sympathetic nerve fibres in diabetes
A Maiorana1, V Cavallari, M C Maiorana
1Institute of Morbid Anatomy, University of Modena, Italy.
Functional Neurology
|October 1, 1987
Abstract:
A morphometric study was carried out on electron micrographs of lumbar sympathetic nerve fibres surgically removed from 12 patients with arteriosclerosis obliterans: 4 diabetics, 4 non-diabetics and 4 subjects with glucose intolerance. In patients with diabetes and glucose intolerance a significant decrease in the percent area fraction of unmyelinated axons and an increase in the percent area fraction of the endoneurial space were demonstrated.