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These reviewers discuss the most controversial type of diabetic neuropathy, diabetic amyotrophy, and a similar, recently recognized clinical disorder found in nondiabetic patients.
The authors note that the two conditions have the following similarities: age of onset; clinical course, including substantial weight loss and the distribution and type of sensorimotor abnormalities (which begin focally and evolve into more extensive, bilateral disorders); autonomic changes; laboratory findings; and ultimate outcomes. Principally because cutaneous nerves from both patients with the diabetic condition and those with the nondiabetic condition show pathologic evidence of ischemic injury and microvasculitis, the authors believe that both represent lum…