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Old 02-21-2008, 06:55 AM
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Default The ones Joe mentions are highly recommended--

--along with the one at Massachusetts General in Boston.

The key with all of these is that they are stand alone neuropathy centers staffed by experts in the field that also do research into the causes and manifestations of neuropathy--very valuable, as they are generally familiar with the latest knowledge. And, they can usually provide more sophisticated testing than even most hospitals (i.e., skin biopsy, sudomotor axon relex testing, nerve autoantibody assays).

I don't know what would have happened to me had I not managed to wrangle an appointment at Cornell-Weill, where a skin biopsy was done on me the first day I was there--it showed I had significant small-fiber damage, and it was the first test, after a mass of others, that was unequivocally abnormal. Suddenly, my symptoms were credible.
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