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Electrophysiologic severity of carpal tunnel syndrome in diabetic patients of the Saudi population

Saima Nazish, Azra Zafar, Rizwana Shahid, Abdullah Al Sulaiman, Majed Alabdali, Danah Aljaafari, Fahad A. Alkhamis, Zakia M. Yasawy, Noman Ishaque, Nehad M. Soltan and Ejaz A. Vohra
Neurosciences Journal January 2019, 24 (1) 22-28; DOI: https://doi.org/10.17712/nsj.2019.1.20180217
Saima Nazish
From Department of Neurology (Nazish, Zafar, Shahid, Al Sulaiman, Alabdali, Aljaafari, Alkhamis, Yasawy, Ishaque, Soltan), College of Medicine, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and from Department of Medicine (Vohra), College of Medicine, Ziauddin University, Karachi, Pakistan
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Azra Zafar
From Department of Neurology (Nazish, Zafar, Shahid, Al Sulaiman, Alabdali, Aljaafari, Alkhamis, Yasawy, Ishaque, Soltan), College of Medicine, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and from Department of Medicine (Vohra), College of Medicine, Ziauddin University, Karachi, Pakistan
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Rizwana Shahid
From Department of Neurology (Nazish, Zafar, Shahid, Al Sulaiman, Alabdali, Aljaafari, Alkhamis, Yasawy, Ishaque, Soltan), College of Medicine, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and from Department of Medicine (Vohra), College of Medicine, Ziauddin University, Karachi, Pakistan
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Abdullah Al Sulaiman
From Department of Neurology (Nazish, Zafar, Shahid, Al Sulaiman, Alabdali, Aljaafari, Alkhamis, Yasawy, Ishaque, Soltan), College of Medicine, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and from Department of Medicine (Vohra), College of Medicine, Ziauddin University, Karachi, Pakistan
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Majed Alabdali
From Department of Neurology (Nazish, Zafar, Shahid, Al Sulaiman, Alabdali, Aljaafari, Alkhamis, Yasawy, Ishaque, Soltan), College of Medicine, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and from Department of Medicine (Vohra), College of Medicine, Ziauddin University, Karachi, Pakistan
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Danah Aljaafari
From Department of Neurology (Nazish, Zafar, Shahid, Al Sulaiman, Alabdali, Aljaafari, Alkhamis, Yasawy, Ishaque, Soltan), College of Medicine, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and from Department of Medicine (Vohra), College of Medicine, Ziauddin University, Karachi, Pakistan
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Fahad A. Alkhamis
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Zakia M. Yasawy
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Noman Ishaque
From Department of Neurology (Nazish, Zafar, Shahid, Al Sulaiman, Alabdali, Aljaafari, Alkhamis, Yasawy, Ishaque, Soltan), College of Medicine, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and from Department of Medicine (Vohra), College of Medicine, Ziauddin University, Karachi, Pakistan
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Nehad M. Soltan
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Ejaz A. Vohra
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