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Nutritional and Alcoholic Neuropathies

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Peripheral polyneuropathies due to nutritional deficiency are often associated with pernicious anemia, sprue, and malabsorption syndromes. This chapter reviews many of the important polyneuropathies attributed to nutritional deficiency including alcoholic polyneuropathy.

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