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Distal Sensory Loss: Peripheral Neuropathy
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Distal Sensory Loss: Peripheral Neuropathy
Peripheral neuropathy is a result of damage to the peripheral nervous system. Peripheral neuropathy often causes weakness, numbness and pain in the hands and feet, however these symptoms may occur in other areas of the body as well. The pain of peripheral neuropathy is often described as tingling or burning.
Symptom classification
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Conditions linked to this sign/symptom
26- Amyloidosis
- Astrocytoma
- Atherosclerosis
- Autoimmune Metaplastic Atrophic Gastritis
- Chediak Higashi Syndrome
- Chromium Deficiency
- Chronic Renal Failure
- Diabetes Mellitus
- Diabetes Type 2
- Diphtheria
- Ferroportin Disease
- Guillain Barre Syndrome
- Hereditary Spastic Paraparesis
- Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV AIDS)
- Lead Poisoning
- Lightning Injuries
- Macroglobulinemia
- Megaloblastic Macrocytic Anemias
- Neurologic Paraneoplastic Syndromes
- POEMS Syndrome
- Sciatica
- Spondylotic Cervical Myelopathy
- Thallium Poisoning
- Tibial Nerve Neuralgia Posterior
- Vitamin B6 Toxicity
- Vitamin E Deficiency
Drugs where this is listed as a side effect
33- Allopurinol
- Amiodarone
- Atorvastatin
- Bortezomib
- Captopril
- Carboplatin
- Cimetidine
- Cisplatin
- Colchicine
- Dapsone
- Disulfiram
- Docetaxel
- Foscarnet
- Gemfibrozil
- Hydroxyurea
- Inteferon alfa
- Isoniazid
- Itraconazole
- Metronidazole
- Nitrofurantoin
- Norfloxacin
- Oxaliplatin
- Perhexiline
- Phenytoin
- Posaconazole
- Quinapril
- Simvastatin
- Sorafenib
- Stavudine
- Thalidomide
- Tobramycin
- Trastuzumab
- Zidovudine